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Some Notes on the Differentiation of closely-allied Schistosomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

F. G. Cawston
F. G. Cawston
Affiliation:
First Streatfeild Research Scholar, Durban, Natal.
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When fresh-water snails are examined microscopically, specimens are occasionally encountered that are infested with the cercariae of more than one species. Sometimes these cercariae are easily differentiated. A snail may harbour numerous eye-spotted amphistomes and a few distomes without eye-spots, or furcocercous forms may be associated with cercariae possessing undivided tails. In some collections of semi-stagnant water, however, the same individual snail may be found infested with at least two distinct schistosomes. In 1916, I found Physopsis africana (in an overflow pool along the course of the Umsindusi river at Pietermaritzburg) heavily infested with two distinct schistosomes, and it was not uncommon, as Dr E. E. Warren also observed, for the two forms to develop in the same host. One of these cercariae I named Cercaria secobii, the other was probably the cercaria of Schistosoma haematobium. Soparkar (1921 a and b) has moreover noted a double infection of Planorbis exustus near Bombay.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 14 , Issue 3-4 , December 1922 , pp. 245 - 247
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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