Release of lungworm larvae from snails in the environment: potential for alternative transmission pathways.

• Hauptverfasser: Alessio Giannelli (Verfasst von), Vito Colella (Verfasst von), Francesca Abramo (Verfasst von), Rafael Antonio do Nascimento Ramos (Verfasst von), Luigi Falsone (Verfasst von), Emanuele Brianti (Verfasst von), Antonio Varcasia (Verfasst von), Filipe Dantas-Torres (Verfasst von), Martin Knaus (Verfasst von), Mark T Fox (Verfasst von), Domenico Otranto (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Gastropod-borne parasites may cause debilitating clinical conditions in animals and humans following the consumption of infected intermediate or paratenic hosts. However, the ingestion of fresh vegetables contaminated by snail mucus and/or water has also been proposed as a source of the i...