Seasonal transmission of Opisthorchis viverrini sensu lato and a Lecithodendriid trematode species in Bithynia siamensis goniomphalos snails in northeast Thailand

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 87-93

  Namsanor, Jutamas ^a,c   Sithithaworn, Paiboon ^a,c   Kopolrat, Kulthida ^a,c   Kiatsopit, Nadda ^a,c   Pitaksakulrat, Opal ^a,c   Tesana, Smarn ^a,c   Andrews, Ross H ^a,b,c   Petney, Trevor N ^a,c  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BITHYNIA; BITHYNIA SIAMENSIS GONIOMPHALOS; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LECITHODENDRIIDAE; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; THAILAND; ANIMAL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OOCYST; OPISTHORCHIS; PARASITOLOGY; SEASON; SNAIL; TRANSMISSION; TREMATODE;

BITHYNIA; CERCARIA (TREMATODE GENUS); GASTROPODA; LECITHODENDRIIDAE; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; TREMATODA;

ANIMALS; CERCARIA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; OOCYSTS; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; SEASONS; SNAILS; THAILAND; TREMATODA;

EID: 84936997870     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0639     Document Type: Article

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