Biological investigations on the freshwater snail Pirenella conica (Blainville, 1829) infected with the developmental stages of Heterophyes sp.

Abstract Background Heterophyiasis is an intestinal sickness promoted by infection with the heterophyid digenetic worms. It is one of the major infectious diseases of public health in the developing countries. Method Single-cell gel eletrophoresis, or comet assay, was carried out for detecting DNA d...

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Main Authors: El-Sayed T. Rizk, Shadia F. Hamada, Sherif R. Abd-ElGhany, Amany M. Ramez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41936-018-0016-8