Assessment of the potential of competitor snails and African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) as biocontrol agents against snail hosts transmitting schistosomiasis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 774-779

  Gashaw, Fikru ^a   Erko, Berhanu ^a   Teklehaymanot, Tilahun ^a   Habtesellasie, Redeat ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b National Fisheries and Other Living Aquatic Resources Research Center   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Biomphalaria pfeifferi; Clarias gariepinus; Competitor snails; Ethiopia; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN CATFISH; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA PFEIFFERI; CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHIOPIA; FERTILITY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD WEB; GASTROPOD; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSA ACUTA; POPULATION SIZE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; VECTOR CONTROL; WORM EGG;

ANIMALS; CATFISHES; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SNAILS;

BIOMPHALARIA PFEIFFERI; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; GASTROPODA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; PHYSA ACUTA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 46049091135     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.04.045     Document Type: Article

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