Natural infection of Deroceras laeve (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with metastrongylid larvae in a transmission focus of abdominal angiostrongyliasis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-54

  Maurer, Rafael Lucyk ^a   Graeff Teixeira, Carlos ^a   Thomé, José Willibaldo ^a   Chiaradia, Luís Antônio ^b   Sugaya, Hiroko ^c   Yoshimura, Kentaro ^c  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b EMPRESA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA E EXTENSÃO RURAL DE SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiostrongylus costaricensis; Deroceras sp; Limacidae; Metastrongyloidea; Veronicellidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; MOLLUSC; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MOLLUSCA; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036371453     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652002000100009     Document Type: Article

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