The influence of agricultural and urban contamination on leech infestation of freshwater turtles, Phrynops geoffroanus, taken from two areas of the Uberabinha River

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 96, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 273-281

  de Campos Brites, Vera Lucia ^a   Rantin, Francisco Tadeu ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agricultural pollution; Freshwater turtles; Hemogregarines; Infestation; Leeches; Urban pollution

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AQUACULTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; MICROORGANISMS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; RIVERS;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER TURTLES; LEECHES;

CONTAMINATION;

FRESH WATER;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LEECH; PARASITE INFESTATION; POLLUTION EFFECT; TURTLE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGRICULTURE; ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TRAPPING; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BITE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPARASITE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GAMETOCYTE; HEMATOCRIT; HEPARINIZATION; LEECH; LIMB DISEASE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORBIT; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITISM; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOIL PROPERTY; SUMMER; SUPERINFECTION; TUBE; TURTLE; URBAN AREA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORM INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; MALE; TURTLES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; HIRUDINIDA; PHRYNOPS; PHRYNOPS GEOFFROANUS; PLACOBDELLA; PLACOBDELLA BISTRIATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 3042600008     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMAS.0000031733.98410.3c     Document Type: Article

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