Studies on the Parasitology, Phylogeography and the Evolution of Host-Parasite Interactions for the Snail Intermediate Hosts of Medically Important Trematode Genera in Southeast Asia

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 73, Issue C, 2010, Pages 405-440

  Attwood, Stephen W ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOOK; CLONORCHIS; FASCIOLA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; OPISTHORCHIS; PARAGONIMUS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAXONOMY; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; HELMINTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; GEOGRAPHY; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SNAILS;

EID: 77954601247     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(10)73013-X     Document Type: Chapter

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