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The Structure and Histochemistry of some Trematode Metacercarial Cysts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

M. F. Asanji  and
M. O. Williams
M. F. Asanji
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone
M. O. Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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The nature and histochemistry of the metacercarial cyst wall of five species of trematodes of different ecological habitats was investigated. Both structurally and chemically, the cysts of Posthodiplostomum sp. and Posthodiplostomoides leoncnsis are similar. They differ from the metacercarial cysts of Parorchis acanthus, Posthodiplostomum nanum and Clinostomum tilapiae

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Research Article
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , December 1973 , pp. 353 - 368
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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