From first to second and back to first intermediate host: The unusual transmission route of Curtuteria australis (Digenea: Echinostomatidae)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 625-628

  McFarland, L H ^a   Mouritsen, K N ^a   Poulin, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE HOST; MOLLUSC; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; WADER;

ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CURTUTERIA AUSTRALIS; ECHINOSTOMA; FECES ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDATION; SHOREBIRD; SNAIL; TREMATODE;

AUSTROVENUS; AVES; BIVALVIA; DIGENEA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; SCOLOPACIDAE; TREMATODA; VENERIDAE;

EID: 0038682901     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2003)089[0625:FFTSAB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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