Effects of larval Echinostuma caproni and Schistosoma mansoni infection on the heart rate of Biomphalaria glabrata snails

Veliger

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 182-183

  Fried, Bernard ^a   Kim, Yonghyun ^a  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; GASTROPODA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 0038477056     PISSN: 00423211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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