Toxocara pteropodis Baylis, 1936 : life-cycle, epizootiology and zoonotic potential

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The aim of this study was to establish whether a human epidemic of hepato-enteritis, the "Palm Island mystery disease", could have been a manifestation of nematode visceral larva migrans caused by the flying fox parasite, Toxocara pteropodis. An assessment of the risk of human exposure to such an infection, and of its pathogenicity, required collection of data from field and laboratory studies.The life-cycle was elucidated in Pteropus poliocephalus, the predominant flying fox in the Brisbane region. Adult worms develop in the intestines of s...

Display date:

1987-01-01

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thesis

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University of Queensland Library

Publisher:

The University of Queensland, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences

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University of Queensland Library

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