ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] SCHISTOSOMIASIS or bilharzia is a disease affecting some 200 million people in the developing countries. The causal agent is a parasitic worm, the schistosome, which lives in the blood vessels of the intestine or urinary tract; man becomes infected by the cercarial, or free-living aquatic, stage ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/296809a0
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