Flukes without snails: Advances in the in vitro cultivation of intramolluscan stages of trematodes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 62-66

  Coustau, Christine ^a   Yoshino, Timothy P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SNAIL; TREMATODE;

BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; DIGENEA (FLUKES); FASCIOLOIDES MAGNA; GASTROPODA; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; TREMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 0033959562     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1999.4462     Document Type: Article

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