Intermediate hosts of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Tenerife, Spain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Martin Alonso, Aarón ^a   Abreu Yanes, Estefanía ^a   Feliu, Carlos ^b   Mas Coma, Santiago ^c   Bargues, María Dolores ^c   Valladares, Basilio ^a   Foronda, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RNA 18S; HELMINTH RNA;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNU ASPERSUM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLUTONIA LAMARCKII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPAIN; THEBA PISANA; ANIMAL; GASTROPOD; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; SNAIL; STRONGYLE INFECTION; TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; PLUTONIA; RATTUS; THEBA PISANA;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; GASTROPODA; HUMANS; LARVA; RATS; RNA, HELMINTH; SNAILS; SPAIN; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84925655329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120686     Document Type: Article

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