A preliminary assessment of the potential of the Muschovy duck (Cairina maschata) as a biocontrol agent of schistosomiasis intermediate host snails

Central African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 271-275

  Ndlela, B ^a   Chimbari, M J ^b  

^a De Beers Research Laboratory Chiredzi   (Zimbabwe)

^b Blair Research Institute   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIOMPHALARIA; BULINUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DUCK; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; ZIMBABWE;

ANIMALS; BIOMPHALARIA; BULINUS; DISEASE VECTORS; DUCKS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0034303891     PISSN: 00089176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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