Chinese liver flukes in latrine sediments from Wong Nim's property, San Bernardino, California: Archaeoparasitology of the caltrans district headquarters

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 300-303

  Reinhard, Karl J ^a   Araújo, Adauto ^b   Sianto, Luciana ^b   Costello, Julia G ^c   Swope, Karen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ENDOPARASITE; FLATWORM; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; INTERMEDIATE HOST; PARASITOLOGY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASIAN AMERICAN; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; IMMIGRANT; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; SANITATION; SEDIMENT; TRICHURIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; CLONORCHIASIS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; TOILET FACILITIES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN BERNARDINO; UNITED STATES;

ASCARIS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; NEMATODA; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

EID: 40949083971     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1049.1     Document Type: Article

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