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D-(-)-tartrate dehydratase(medicine)
Linguatula(medicine)
Linguatula rhinaria(medicine)
Linguatula serrata(medicine)
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Linguatula serrata (medicine) and D-(-)-tartrate dehydratase (medicine)


Linguatula serrata (medicine)


Linguatula serrata


A species most common in Europe, but also found in the United States, South America, and probably elsewhere; the adult is a whitish, soft, flattened, annulated worm equipped with hooks by which it attaches itself to the nasal mucosa of dogs and Other canids; the larvae develop in the liver and lymph nodes of rodents, swine, cattle, and sometimes man and Other primates.

Synonym: Linguatula rhinaria.


D-(-)-tartrate dehydratase (medicine)


D-(-)-tartrate dehydratase
<enzyme> From rhodopseudomonas spheroides; does not act on l-(+)-tartrate; forms oxaloacetate

Registry number: EC 4.2.1.-

Synonym: d-(-)-tartrate hydrolyase