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Parasitological Data As Monitors Of Environmental Health, Robin M. Overstreet
Parasitological Data As Monitors Of Environmental Health, Robin M. Overstreet
Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications
When an appropriate fish host is selected, analysis of its parasites offers a useful, reliable, economical, telescoped indication or monitor of environmental health. The value of that information increases when corroborated by another non-parasitological technique. The analysis of parasites is not necessarily simple because not all hosts serve as good models and because the number of species, presence of specific species, intensity of infections, life histories of species, location of species in hosts, and host response for each parasitic species have to be addressed individually to assure usefulness of the tool. Also, different anthropogenic contaminants act in a distinct manner …