Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Nematode: Metastrongyloidea) in molluscs from harbour areas in Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 740-746

  dos Santos Carvalho, Omar ^a   Scholte, Ronaldo Guilherme Carvalho ^b,c   de Mendonça, Cristiane Lafeta Furtado ^a,d   Passos, Liana Konovaloff Jannotti ^a   Caldeira, Roberta Lima ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Angiostrongylus cantonensis; Brazil; Eosinophilic meningoencephalitis; Molluscs; Ports

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLLUSC; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DISEASE VECTORS; MOLLUSCA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

ACHATINA FULICA; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; BRADYBAENA SIMILARIS; HELIX; LIMACIDAE; MELAMPUS; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MOLLUSCA; POMACEA SP.; SARASINULA; SUBULINA OCTONA; SUCCINEA;

EID: 84867003417     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000600006     Document Type: Article

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