An Economical Method for the Maintenance of Schistosome Life-Cycles using Outdoor Facilities

Discovery and Innovation

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 221-224

  Naik, Yogeshkumar S ^a,b   Hasler, Julia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Life cycle; Methods; Outdoor breeding; Schistosomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346438598     PISSN: 1015079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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