Establishment of Biomphalaria tenagophila snails in Europe

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1812-1814

  Majoros, Gábor ^a   Fehér, Zoltán ^b   Deli, Tamás ^c   Földvári, Gábor ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c Munkácsy Mihály Museum   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOMPHALARIA; DNA EXTRACTION; EUROPE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; TREMATODE;

EID: 55549145788     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1411.080479     Document Type: Letter

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