How do snails meet fish? Landscape perspective needed to study parasite prevalence

EcoHealth

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 258-260

  Wang, Yi Chen ^a   Feng, Chen Chieh ^a   Sithithaworn, Paiboon ^b   Feng, Yikang ^a   Petney, Trevor N ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

connectivity; land use; landscape ecology; liver fluke; northeast Thailand; parasitic disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LAKE; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; POND; REVIEW; SNAIL; THAILAND;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FISHES; HUMANS; LAKES; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; PARASITIC DISEASES; PONDS; SNAILS; THAILAND;

FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 84859948073     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-011-0701-2     Document Type: Review

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