Aquatic molluscs as auxiliary hosts for terrestrial nematode parasites: Implications for pathogen transmission in a changing climate

Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1041-1056

  Morley, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiostrongylus; Auxiliary host; Climate change; Freshwater snails; Metastrongyloids; Molluscs; Muellerius; Phasmarhabditis; Rhabditoids; Steinernema

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; HABITAT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOLLUSC; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SNAIL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MOLLUSCA; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; SNAILS; WATER;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS VASORUM; BASOMMATOPHORA; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MOLLUSCA; MUELLERIUS; MUELLERIUS CAPILLARIS; NEMATODA; PHASMARHABDITIS; RHABDITOIDEA; STEINERNEMA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 77953612584     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182010000016     Document Type: Review

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