A new baseline for fascioliasis in Venezuela: Lymnaeid vectors ascertained by DNA sequencing and analysis of their relationships with human and animal infection

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bargues, M Dolores ^a   González, L Carolina ^a,b   Artigas, Patricio ^a   Mas Coma, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FASCIOLIASIS; GALBA TRUNCATULA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA CUBENSIS; LYMNAEA MERIDENSIS; LYMNAEA NEOTROPICA; LYMNAEA SCHIRAZENSIS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PSEUDOSUCCINEA COLUMELLA; VENEZUELA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVESTOCK; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAIL;

ANIMALIA; GALBA TRUNCATULA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEIDAE; PSEUDOSUCCINEA COLUMELLA; RADIX (GASTROPOD);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE VECTORS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNAILS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 80053983464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-200     Document Type: Article

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