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Calicophoron daubneyi and Fasciola hepatica: characteristics of natural and experimental co-infections of these digeneans in the snail Lymnaea glabra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2016

P. Vignoles
Affiliation:
INSERM 1094, Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, 87025 Limoges, France
A. Titi
Affiliation:
INSERM 1094, Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, 87025 Limoges, France PADESCA Laboratory, Veterinary Science Institute, University Constantine 1, 25100 El Khroub, Algeria
A. Mekroud
Affiliation:
PADESCA Laboratory, Veterinary Science Institute, University Constantine 1, 25100 El Khroub, Algeria
D. Rondelaud
Affiliation:
INSERM 1094, Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, 87025 Limoges, France
G. Dreyfuss*
Affiliation:
INSERM 1094, Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, 87025 Limoges, France
*
*Fax: 33.555.435863 E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

A retrospective study on different Lymnaea glabra samples collected from central France between 1993 and 2010 was carried out to determine the prevalence of natural co-infections with Calicophoron daubneyi and Fasciola hepatica, and to specify the composition of redial burdens. Experimental infections of L. glabra performed during the same period of time were also analysed to study metacercarial production of each digenean in co-infected snails. Controls were naturally or experimentally co-infected Galba truncatula. In natural co-infections, prevalence was 0.7% in L. glabra (186/25,128) and 0.4% in G. truncatula (137/31,345). Low redial burdens were found in these snails, with F. hepatica rediae significantly more numerous in L. glabra than in G. truncatula (7.5 per snail instead of 5.2). In contrast, the total numbers of C. daubneyi rediae in both lymnaeids were close to each other (4.3 and 3.0 rediae, respectively). In experimentally co-infected groups, prevalence was greater in G. truncatula than in the other lymnaeid (6.3% instead of 3.0%). Significantly shorter patent periods and lower metacercarial production for each digenean were noted in L. glabra than in G. truncatula. However, in both lymnaeids, the two types of cercariae were released during the same shedding waves and several peaks during the patent period were synchronous. In spite of a greater shell height for L. glabra, metacercarial production of both digeneans in co-infected snails was lower than that in G. truncatula, thus indicating a still incomplete adaptation between these French L. glabra and both parasites.

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