Effects of atrazine on cercarial longevity, activity, and infectivity

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 306-311

  Koprivnikar, Janet ^a   Forbes, Mark R ^a,b   Baker, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; HERBICIDE;

AMPHIBIAN; HERBICIDE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; PARASITE; PARASITISM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TADPOLE; TREMATODE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HERBICIDES; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANIDAE; SNAILS; TREMATODA;

NORTH AMERICA;

ALARIA (TREMATODE); AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; INVERTEBRATA; RANA CLAMITANS; TREMATODA;

EID: 33646486766     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-624R.1     Document Type: Article

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