Invasive snails and an emerging infectious disease: results from the first national survey on Angiostrongylus cantonensis in China.

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Published in PLoS Negl Trop Dis on February 03, 2009

Authors

Shan Lv1, Yi Zhang, He-Xiang Liu, Ling Hu, Kun Yang, Peter Steinmann, Zhao Chen, Li-Ying Wang, Jürg Utzinger, Xiao-Nong Zhou

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1: National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

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