Chemical attractants of human skin for swimming Schistosoma mansoni cercariae

Parasitology Research

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 657-662

  Haeberlein, Simone ^a   Haas, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CARBON; CHEMOATTRACTANT; FATTY ACID; PEPTIDE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CERCARIA (TREMATODE LARVA); CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMOKINESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTIONATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SKIN; SKIN PENETRATION; SKIN SURFACE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; CHEMOTAXIS; FATTY ACIDS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PEPTIDES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SKIN; SWIMMING;

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 39749192696     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0807-1     Document Type: Article

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