Replacement of native freshwater snails by the exotic Physa acuta (Gastropoda: Physidae) in southern Mozambique; a possible control mechanism for schistosomiasis

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 543-548

  Dobson, M ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROPOD; INFECTION CONTROL; INVERTEBRATE; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LABORATORY; MOLLUSC; MOZAMBIQUE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; SPECIES; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; MOZAMBIQUE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAILS;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; PHYSA; PHYSA ACUTA; PHYSIDAE;

EID: 3242706592     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349803225021334     Document Type: Article

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