Australian ecosystems, capricious food chains and parasitic consequences for people

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 717-724

  Spratt, David M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arboviruses; Arthropods; Australia; Helminths; Rickettsiae; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

WATER;

FOOD CHAIN; HEALTH RISK; PARASITE;

ANGIOSTRONGYLOSIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPOD; AUSTRALIA; BRACHYLAIMIASIS; CESTODE; CESTODIASIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENDOTAKIA MATRICIDA; FLEA; FOOD CHAIN; HAYCOCKNEMA PERPLEXUM; HAYCOCKNEMIASIS; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; MITE; MOSQUITO; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; PLANT; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; RODENTOLEPIASIS; SCABIES; SOIL; TREMATODE; TRICHINELLA PSEUDOSPIRALIS; VERTEBRATE; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ARTHROPODS; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; PARASITIC DISEASES; TASMANIA; ZOONOSES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; TASMANIA; WORLD;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPODA; CESTODA; HAYCOCKNEMA; HAYCOCKNEMA PERPLEXUM; INVERTEBRATA; RICKETTSIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); TREMATODA; VERMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 19544389338     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2005.01.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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