Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance

C.A. Wright

doi:10.1016/0035-9203(81)90097-3

January 1, 1981Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance

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Catalog the diverse freshwater snail species across Africa and evaluate their clinical significance as intermediate hosts for trematode parasites.
Taxonomic classification, morphological descriptions, and geographical distribution mapping of African freshwater snail species across 450 illustrated pages.
Systematic identification keys established for medically relevant gastropod taxa across African freshwater ecosystems.
Transmission dynamics elucidated connecting specific snail lineages to human parasitic diseases such as schistosomiasis.

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Comprehensive review details taxonomy and distribution of freshwater snails in Africa, highlighting their role as intermediate hosts for human parasites.

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C. A. Wright; Freshwater snails of Africa and their medical importance. D. S. Brown, 1980. London: Taylor & Francis Ltd., 450 pp., illus. ISBN 0 85066 145 5

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