Endemic angiostrongyliasis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1331-1333

  Simões, Raquel O ^a,b   Monteiro, Fernando A ^a   Sánchez, Elizabeth ^a   Thiengo, Silvana C ^a   Garcia, Juberlan S ^a   Costa Neto, Sócrates F ^a   Luque, José L ^b   Maldonado Jr , Arnaldo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ACHATINA FULICA; ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; BRAZIL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC DISTANCE; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; RAT; SNAIL; SPECIES COMPARISON; ZOONOSIS;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BRAZIL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EOSINOPHILIA; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNAILS; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79959890949     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1707.101822     Document Type: Letter

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