Morphology of new eleven cercariae procured from melanoides tuberculata snails in egypt

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1482-1494

  Yousif, Fouad ^a   Ibrahim, Abdalla ^b   El Bardicy, Samia ^a   Sleem, Setaita ^b   Ayoub, Magda ^a  

^a Theodor Bilharz Research Institute   (Egypt)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Furcocercous cercariae; Gymnocephalous cercariae; Melanoides tuberculata; Pleurolophocercous cercariae; Xiphidiocercariae

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650204569     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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