Wild animals used as food medicine in Brazil

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Alves, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega ^a   Oliveira, Tacyana Pereira Ribeiro ^a,b   Rosa, Ierecê Lucena ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CRUSTACEA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPTILE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WILD ANIMAL;

EID: 84883152348     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/670352     Document Type: Article

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