Trematode infections in freshwater snails and cattle from the Kafue wetlands of Zambia during a period of highest cattle-water contact

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-92

  Phiri, A M ^a   Phiri, I K ^a   Chota, A ^a   Monrad, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BELLAMYA CAPILLATA; BIOMPHALARIA PFEIFFERI; BULINUS; CATTLE; CERCARIA (TREMATODE LARVA); CLEOPATRA NSWENDWEENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; GYMNOCEPHALOUS; HABITAT; LYMNAEA NATALENSIS; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; NONHUMAN; PHYSA ACUTA; SNAIL; TREMATODIASIS; WETLAND; XIPHIDIOCERCARIA; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE VECTORS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; SNAILS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; WETLANDS; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALIA; BASOMMATOPHORA; BELLAMYA CAPILLATA; BIOMPHALARIA PFEIFFERI; BOS; BULINUS; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA NATALENSIS; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; PHYSA ACUTA; TREMATODA;

EID: 34347343795     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X07387786     Document Type: Article

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