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Freshwater snail-borne parasitic diseases in Africa [PDF]

open access: goldTropical Medicine and Health
Background Freshwater snails are the first obligatory intermediate hosts in the trematode life cycle. Several parasitic diseases transmitted by these snails are endemic in Africa, and their distribution closely follows that of the intermediate hosts ...
Papa Mouhamadou Gaye   +4 more
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Environmental Factors Affecting Freshwater Snail Intermediate Hosts in Shenzhen and Adjacent Region, South China [PDF]

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
Sound knowledge of the local distribution and diversity of freshwater snail intermediate hosts and the factors driving the occurrence and abundance of them is crucial to understanding snail-borne parasitic disease transmission and to setting up effective
Fengyang Min   +8 more
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Environmental and biotic factors affecting freshwater snail intermediate hosts in the Ethiopian Rift Valley region [PDF]

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Knowledge of the distribution and habitat preference of freshwater snail intermediate hosts can provide information to initiate and set-up effective snail control programmes.
Beekam Kebede Olkeba   +6 more
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The Freshwater Snails Of Taiwan (formosa).

open access: green, 1970
PhD ; Zoology ; University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/188611/2/7021747 ...
Gary Lee Pace
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Responses of four submerged macrophytes to freshwater snail density (Radix swinhoei) under clear‐water conditions: A mesocosm study [PDF]

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2020
Macrophytes play a key role in stabilizing clear‐water conditions in shallow freshwater ecosystems. Their populations are maintained by a balance between plant grazing and plant growth.
Yongwei Zhi, Yang Liu, Wei Li, Yu Cao
doaj   +2 more sources

Opportunity or catastrophe? effect of sea salt on host-parasite survival and reproduction.

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Seawater intrusion associated with decreasing groundwater levels and rising seawater levels may affect freshwater species and their parasites. While brackish water certainly impacts freshwater systems globally, its impact on disease transmission is ...
Ao Yu   +3 more
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Invasive freshwater snails form novel microbial relationships [PDF]

open access: yesEvolutionary Applications, 2020
Abstract Resident microbes (microbiota) can shape host organismal function and adaptation in the face of environmental change. Invasion of new habitats exposes hosts to novel selection pressures, but little is known about the impact on microbiota and the host–microbiome relationship (e.g., how rapidly new ...
L. Bankers   +6 more
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Nutritional evaluation of some economically important marine and freshwater mollusc species of Bangladesh

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
Molluscs are the most important resources among all the seafood items in South-East Asian countries. However, very little information available on nutritional value of molluscs in these regions.
Mohammad Moniruzzaman   +8 more
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