Will All Scientists Working on Snails and the Diseases They Transmit Please Stand Up?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Adema, Coen M ^a   Bayne, Christopher J ^b   Bridger, Joanna M ^c   Knight, Matty ^d   Loker, Eric S ^a   Yoshino, Timothy P ^e   Zhang, Si Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERCARIA; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; GASTROPOD DISEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCIENTIST; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PARASITIC DISEASES; SNAILS;

EID: 84872015495     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001835     Document Type: Editorial

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