Parasitological and molecular study of the furcocercariae from Melanoides tuberculata as a probable agent of cercarial dermatitis

Parasitology Research

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 955-962

  Karamian, Mehdi ^a   Aldhoun, Jitka A ^b   Maraghi, Sharif ^c   Hatam, Gholamreza ^a   Farhangmehr, Babak ^a   Sadjjadi, Seyed Mahmoud ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITOBILHARZIA; GIGANTOBILHARZIA; IRAN; LYMNAEA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA; SISTER GROUP; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; IRAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNAILS;

ANIMALIA; DENDRITOBILHARZIA; GASTROPODA; GIGANTOBILHARZIA; LYMNAEA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; MELANOPSIS; PHYSA ACUTA; RADIX AURICULARIA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 79956209429     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-2138-x     Document Type: Article

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