Snails, waterfowl and cercarial dermatitis

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 779-790

  Horák, Petr ^a   Kolářová, Libuše ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bird schistosomes; Cercarial dermatitis; Lymnaea; Trematodes; Trichobilharzia

Indexed keywords

ANATIDAE; AVES; CERCARIA (TREMATODE GENUS); GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; TREMATODA; TRICHOBILHARZIA; VERMES;

EID: 79952226929     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02545.x     Document Type: Article

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