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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Helminths > Nematoda > Chromadorea > Strongylida > Strongyloidea > Oesophagostomum

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Oesophagostomum  

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Note

  • a genus of nematodes; infection = OESOPHAGOSTOMIASIS; for antigens, coord with ANTIGENS, HELMINTH, for antibodies, coord with ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH

Scope note

  • A genus of nematodes of the superfamily STRONGYLOIDEA, parasitic in the intestines of animals. The adults are usually free in the intestinal lumen; the larvae encyst in the wall.

History note

  • 67; was see under HOOKWORMS 1963-66

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009815

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