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Bilharzia Infection in South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

F. G. Cawston
F. G. Cawston
Affiliation:
Durban, Natal.
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In 1916 Dr J. C. Becker made the interesting discovery of Bilharzia infection in Physopsis africana collected at Nijlstroom in the Transvaal and obtained the adult flukes in some guinea-pigs he had exposed to infection with the cercariae. The town of Nijlstroom is situated at the source of a tributary of the Limpopo river at an altitude of 3924 feet above the Indian Ocean into which it flows. In 1917 I collected2 infested examples of P. africana at Magaliesburg, a popular picnic place for Krugersdorp residents, situated on a branch of the Little Crocodile river which later joins the Limpopo. Magaliesburg has an altitude of 5000 feet above sea-level. I also obtained infested examples from Rustenburg, thus revealing a further source of infection from tributaries of the Little Crocodile river, at an altitude of over 4000 feet.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , October 1928 , pp. 250 - 253
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1928

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