Host specificity of Pisidium coreanum (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) to larval infection with a human intestinal fluke Echinostoma cinetorchis (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) in Korea

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1118-1120

  Park, Y K ^a   Soh, C T ^b   Park, G M ^c   Hwang, M K ^a   Chung, P R ^a  

^a Inha University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Wonkwang University   (South Korea)

^c Catholic Kwandong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; FLATFISH; HOST SPECIFICITY; LARVA; MOLLUSC;

ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CERCARIA; CLAM; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA CINETORCHIS; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; FRACTURE; HOST RANGE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTERMEDIATE HOST; KOREA; MIRACIDIUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PISIDIUM COREANUM; SEGMENTINA HEMISPHAERULA; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; FRESH WATER; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; KOREA; LARVA; MEDICINE, ORIENTAL TRADITIONAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

BIVALVIA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PISIDIUM COREANUM; SEGMENTINA HEMISPHAERULA; SPHAERIIDAE (BIVALVES); TREMATODA;

EID: 33845276952     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-787R1.1     Document Type: Article

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