Morphological Re-Description and 18 S rDNA Sequence Confirmation of the Pinworm Aspiculuris tetraptera (Nematoda, Heteroxynematidae) Infecting the Laboratory Mice Mus musculus

• Rewaida Abdel-Gaber,
• Fathy Abdel-Ghaffar,
• Saleh Al Quraishy,
• Kareem Morsy,
• Rehab Saleh,
• Heinz Mehlhorn

Affiliations

Rewaida Abdel-Gaber

Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia

Fathy Abdel-Ghaffar

Faculty of Science, Zoology Department, Cairo University,Cairo,Egypt

Saleh Al Quraishy

Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia

Kareem Morsy

Faculty of Science, Zoology Department, Cairo University,Cairo,Egypt

Rehab Saleh

Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Biology Department, Kasr-Khiar, Al Mergheb University,Libya

Heinz Mehlhorn

Parasitology Institute, Düsseldorf University,Düsseldorf,Germany