Invasive freshwater snail, China [4]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1119-1120

  Wang, Qiao Ping ^a   Chen, Xiao Guang ^b   Lun, Zhao Rong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ANGIOSTRONGYLOSIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; BRAIN INFECTION; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LETTER; POMACEA CANALICULATA; SNAIL;

EID: 34447282633     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1307.061360     Document Type: Letter

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