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The Use of Brazilian Medicinal Plants to Combat Schistosoma mansoni

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Silmara Marques Allegretti, Claudineide Nascimento Fernandes de Oliveira, Rosimeire Nunes de Oliveira, Tarsila Ferraz Frezza and Vera Lúcia Garcia Rehder

Submitted: 17 February 2011 Published: 13 January 2012

DOI: 10.5772/27399

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Schistosomiasis

Edited by Mohammad Bagher Rokni

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Written By

Silmara Marques Allegretti, Claudineide Nascimento Fernandes de Oliveira, Rosimeire Nunes de Oliveira, Tarsila Ferraz Frezza and Vera Lúcia Garcia Rehder

Submitted: 17 February 2011 Published: 13 January 2012