A fresh insight into transmission of schistosomiasis: A misleading tale of biomphalaria in lake victoria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Standley, Claire J ^a,b   Wade, Christopher M ^a   Stothard, J Russell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA CHOANOMPHALA; BIOMPHALARIA SUDANICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC DISTANCE; LAKE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; UGANDA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; PARASITOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMA;

BASOMMATOPHORA; BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA CHOANOMPHALA; BIOMPHALARIA SUDANICA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ANIMALS; BIOMPHALARIA; ECOSYSTEM; LAKES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 80055042211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026563     Document Type: Article

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