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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Helminths > Nematoda > Adenophorea > Enoplida > Trichuroidea > Capillaria

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Capillaria  

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Entry terms

  • Skrjabinocapillaria
  • Skrjabinocapillarias

Note

  • infection: coordinate with ENOPLIDA INFECTIONS; coordinate with specific precoordinated helminth terms (e.g., ANTIGENS, HELMINTH) if pertinent

Scope note

  • A genus of trichuroid nematodes parasitic in the liver and intestines of many mammals and birds. Two species, C. hepatica and C. philippinensis, produce often fatal infections in man.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under TRICHUROIDEA 1967-90, was see under TRICHINELLOIDEA 1963-66; HEPATICOLA HEPATICA was see under TRICHUROIDEA 1967-78, was see under TRICHINELLOIDEA 1963-66

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002195

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