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Observations on the Incidence of Metastrongylus brevivaginatus and Metastrongylus elongatus in Pigs in Central Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

E. Aneurin Lewis
Affiliation:
Demonstrator in Zoology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Field Officer, Institute of Agricultural Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Extract

During the winter of 1921–22 I visited the slaughterhouse at Aberystwyth at least once each week for the purpose of studying the helminthic parasites of sheep and pigs in the neighbourhood. An average of 50 sheep and 8 pigs were examined weekly from November 26th, 1921, to April 28th, 1922. Metastrongylus elongatus and M. brevivaginatus were present in the bronchioles of 50 per cent. of the pigs examined, generally both species being present in the same animal, and I took the opportunity of working out the anatomy of these two forms in detail, and indicating the differences between them; but before being able to publish my results Gedoelst covered the ground in his “Le Genre Metastrongylus Molin, 1861,” published in 1923.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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References

Gedoelst, L., 1923.—“Le Genre Metastrongylus Molin, 1861Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, XVI., pp. 624630. Paris.Google Scholar