A fresh insight into transmission of schistosomiasis: a misleading tale of Biomphalaria in Lake Victoria. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2011 Lake Victoria is a known hot-spot for Schistosoma mansoni, which utilises freshwater snails of the genus Biomphalaria as intermediate hosts. Different species of Biomphalaria are associated with varying parasite compatibility, affecting local ...
Standley CJ, Wade CM, Stothard JR.
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Geographical distribution of Biomphalaria snails in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2001 Published and unpublished observations on geographical distribution of Biomphalaria snails in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, were compiled.
Souza Cecília Pereira de +6 more
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Los estanques urbanos como un riesgo potencial en la transmisión de parásitos [PDF]
Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, 2019 We studied freshwater snails inhabiting an urban pond in an enclosed private community from the northern Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina for a year and monitored individuals in order to observe parasite emergence.
Gutierrez Gregoric, Diego Eduardo +3 more
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Moluscos límnicos da microrregião de Belo Horizonte, MG, com ênfase nos vetores de parasitoses
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 1998 Um levantamento malacológico em coleções hídricas de 13 municípios da microrregião de Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil, foi efetuado para detectar focos de transmissão de esquistossomose e outras parasitoses.
Cecília Pereira de Souza +6 more
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Avaliação biométrica de Biomphalaria spp. (Preston, 1910) no município de Juiz de Fora, MG [PDF]
, 2009 Body dimensions are used to identify and characterize individuals of a largevariety of species, and may be evaluated in individuals that are parasitized or notregarding specific somatic responses.
Bessa, Elizabeth Cristina Almeida +4 more
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Dealing with a hyper-successful neighbor: effects of the invasive apple snail Pomacea canaliculata on exotic and native snails in South America. [PDF]
Curr Zool, 2019 Pomacea canaliculata is a successful invader and also a competitor and predator of other snails and may play a key role in structuring freshwater snail communities both in its native and invaded range.
Maldonado MA, Martín PR.
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Taxonomic diversity of Biomphalaria (Planorbidae) in São Paulo state, Brazil
Biota Neotropica, 2020 : Morphological and molecular identifications were carried out for Biomphalaria occidentalis, Biomphalaria oligoza, Biomphalaria peregrina, Biomphalaria schrammi, Biomphalaria straminea and Biomphalaria tenagophila collected from 55 sites located along ...
F. P. Ohlweiler +3 more
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Planorbidae, Lymnaeidae and Physidae of Ecuador (Mollusca: Basommatophora)
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2004 In the course of a trip to Ecuador I had the opportunity of collecting topotypic specimens of the following nominal species of pulmonate molluscs: Biomphalaria cousini Paraense, 1966; Planorbis equatorius Cousin, 1887; P.
W Lobato Paraense
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Cercariae (Digenea: Strigeidae, Diplostomidae) in Biomphalaria straminea (Planorbidae) from a rice field in Northeastern Argentina [PDF]
, 2017 The rice fields can provide habitats for many species of aquatic invertebrates, as insects, molluscs, crustaceans; and vertebrates, as fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds, which may act as hosts in the life cycles of digenean parasites. In this context,
Fernández, María Virginia +1 more
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Holocene continental molluscan fauna (Pampean region, Argentina) [PDF]
, 2014 In this study the molluscan fauna recovered from six archaeological sites of the Interserrana Bonaerense area is analyzed. Three geographical sectors were studied in this area: I) Middle river basin of Quequén Grande river; II) Southwest of the ...
Aguirre, Marina Laura +2 more
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