Original Research
Descriptions of strigea cercariae from the Gauteng and North West Provinces, South Africa
Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research | Vol 79, No 1 | a410 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ojvr.v79i1.410
| © 2012 Esmey B.E. Moema, Pieter H. King, Chantelle Baker
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 06 February 2012 | Published: 14 September 2012
Submitted: 06 February 2012 | Published: 14 September 2012
About the author(s)
Esmey B.E. Moema, Department of Biology, University of Limpopo, Medunsa campus, South AfricaPieter H. King, Department of Biology, University of Limpopo, Medunsa campus, South Africa
Chantelle Baker, Electron Microscope Unit, University of Limpopo, Medunsa campus, South Africa
Abstract
Freshwater snails are known to serve as first intermediate hosts for various parasitic diseases such as schistosomosis, amphistomosis and fasciolosis. Two freshwater snail species, Lymnaea natalensis, Krauss 1848 and Bulinus tropicus, Krauss 1848 were sampled from five localities in Gauteng and one locality in the North West Province from 2007 to 2010. These snails were collected in order to study their cercarial sheddings. They were found to be infected with three different types of strigea cercariae, of which the morphology was studied using standard light and scanning electron microscopy techniques.
Keywords
cercarial sheddings; freshwater snails; hosts; morphology; strigea
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