Environmental Contamination with Helminth Infective Stages Implicated in Water and Foodborne Diseases

Acta Microbiologica Polonica

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 45-56

  Doligalska, Maria ^a   Donskow, Katarzyna ^a  

^a MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Environment contamination; Helminthic infections; Water and foodborne diseases; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY; ANISAKIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELMINTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TOXOCARA; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA BRITOVI; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; WATER; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; ANISAKIS; CANIDAE; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; TOXOCARA; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA BRITOVI; VERMES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0347089282     PISSN: 01371320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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