Diversity and cercarial shedding of malaco fauna collected from water bodies of Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra

Acta Tropica

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 249-252

  Devi, N Pemola ^a   Jauhari, R K ^a  

^a DAV (PG) College   (India)

Author keywords

Cercariae; Diversity; Ratnagiri; Schistosome; Snails

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIVALVE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUCCESSION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BELLAMYA BENGALENSIS; BELLAMYA DISSIMILIS; BIVALVE; CERCARIA; FASCIOLA GIGANTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FAUNA; FERRISSIA TENUIS; INDIA; INDOPLANORBIS EXUSTUS; LYMNAEA ACUMINATA; LYMNAEA LUTEOLA; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PALUDOMUS OBESUS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PILA GLOBOSA; POND; RIVER; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREAM (RIVER); THIARA TUBERCULATA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FRESH WATER; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; ORYZA SATIVA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAILS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; RATNAGIRI; SOUTH ASIA;

BELLAMYA; BELLAMYA DISSIMILIS; BIVALVIA; FERRISSIA; GASTROPODA; INDOPLANORBIS EXUSTUS; LYMNAEA LUTEOLA; PALUDOMUS; PILA GLOBOSA; SCHISTOSOMA; THIARA TUBERCULATA;

EID: 39249084493     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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