The use of Tetraphyll as food for snails increases the intensity of cercarial shedding in Galba truncatula infected with Fasciola hepatica

Parasitology Research

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 86-90

  Belfaiza, M ^b   Abrous, M ^a   Rondelaud, D ^a   Moncef, M ^b   Dreyfuss, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT; GLYCOGEN;

ALGA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FOOD; LETTUCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SNAIL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREMATODIASIS;

ALGAE; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LETTUCE; SNAILS;

ALGAE; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GASTROPODA; HEPATICA; LACTUCA;

EID: 5644257077     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1172-y     Document Type: Article

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