Brief communication: Gnathostoma infective stage larvae in swamp eels (Fluta alba) at a metropolitan market in Bangkok, Thailand

Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 94-96

  Sugaroon, Suphun ^a   Wiwanitkit, Viroj ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Gnathostoma spingerum; Gnathostomiasis; Swamp eels; Tropical medicine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EEL; GNATHOSTOMA SPINIGERUM; LARVAL STAGE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAILAND; THELAZIA; TROPICAL MEDICINE; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FISH DISEASE; FOOD CONTROL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; LIVER; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA; GNATHOSTOMA; GNATHOSTOMA SPINIGERUM; MONOPTERUS ALBUS; NEMATODA; SYNBRANCHIDAE; THELAZIA;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; GNATHOSTOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LARVA; LIVER; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPIRURIDA INFECTIONS; THAILAND;

EID: 0037412422     PISSN: 00917370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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