Molecular characterisation of Galba truncatula, Lymnaea neotropica and L. schirazensis from Cajamarca, Peru and their potential role in transmission of human and animal fascioliasis

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bargues, M Dolores ^a   Artigas, Patricio ^a   Khoubbane, Messaoud ^a   Ortiz, Pedro ^b   Naquira, Cesar ^c   Mas Coma, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CAJAMARCA   (Peru)

^c Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; GALBA TRUNCATULA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LARVAL STAGE; LIVESTOCK; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA NEOTROPICA; LYMNAEA SCHIRAZENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAIL; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLIASIS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LARVA; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SNAILS;

ANIMALIA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GALBA TRUNCATULA; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA VIATRIX; LYMNAEIDAE;

EID: 84866123431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-174     Document Type: Article

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