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Effect of Water Depth on the Infection of Biomphalaria glabrata by Miracidia of St. Lucian Schistosoma mansoni under Laboratory and Field Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Edward Suchart Upatham
Edward Suchart Upatham*
Affiliation:
Research and Control Department, Castries, St. Lucia.
*
* Staff member of the Rockefeller Foundation, 111 West 50th Street, New York. N.Y. 10020.
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1. Laboratory and field trials were carried out to investigate the influence of depth on the infection of B. glabrata by St. Lucian S. mansoni miracidia.

2. In both laboratory and field experiments, miracidia located and infected snails to a depth of 122 cm.

3. The degree of infection seems to be related to the size of a habitat and its water volume.

4. Infection rates were high at the miracidial point of entry where miracidium-snail interaction was maximum and at the water surface where miracidia eventually congregated.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , December 1972 , pp. 317 - 325
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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