Relationship between snail population density and infection status of snails and fish with zoonotic trematodes in Vietnamese carp nurseries.

• Main Authors: Jesper Hedegaard Clausen (Author), Henry Madsen (Author), K Darwin Murrell (Author), Van Phan Thi (Author), Hung Nguyen Manh (Author), Khue Nguyen Viet (Author), Anders Dalsgaard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Fish-borne zoonotic trematodes (FZT) are a food safety and health concern in Vietnam. Humans and other final hosts acquire these parasites from eating raw or under-cooked fish with FZT metacercariae. Fish raised in ponds are exposed to cercariae shed by snail hosts tha...