Waterborne Parasitic Diseases in Ocean

• Main Author: Overstreet, Robin M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Aquila Digital Community 2012
• Subjects: intermediate host; marine mammal; definitive host; bottlenose dolphin; harbor seal; Immunology and Infectious Disease; Life Sciences; Oyashio
• Online Access: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/21492; http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-5719-0_15

Several parasites or those in the marine environment as posing no public health risk. Over the last few decades, more and more parasites in different groups have been determined to be zoonotic agents that either are known to infect humans or can serve as a potential public health risk based on exper...