Control of intermediate host snails for parasitic diseases - A threat to biodiversity in African freshwaters?

Malacologia

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 379-391

  Kristensen, Thomas K ^a   Brown, David S ^b  

^a DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Biodiversity; Conservation; Fresh water; Mollusca; Schistosomiasis; Snail control; Snail borne disease

Indexed keywords

AMPULLARIIDAE; BIOMPHALARIA; BITHYNIIDAE; BULINUS; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; SCHISTOSOMA; THIARIDAE;

EID: 0033478684     PISSN: 00762997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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