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Schistosomiasis in a low prevalence area: incomplete urbanization increasing risk of infection in Paracambi, RJ, Brazil

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1995
The risk of schistosomiais infection and heavy infection in the locality of Sabugo was evaluated in relation to housing in areas with different urbanization development and to residential supply with snail-infested water.
Marisa S. Soares   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

POLYVITELLINE EGGS AND DOUBLE MONSTERS IN THE POND SNAIL LYMNÆA COLUMELLA SAY

open access: yesThe Biological Bulletin, 1932
Data are presented regarding the production of polyvitelline eggs and double monsters through the entire life of a group of Lymnaea columella. It is held that the data show that hereditary factors are concerned.
Winsor, Charles P., Winsor, Agnes A
openaire   +3 more sources

Community Health Workers' Multiple Understandings of Schistosomiasis Transmission Pathways: Exploring Contextual Factors in Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya and Uganda

open access: yesTropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Schistosomiasis remains a public health concern in sub‐Saharan Africa, affecting over 250 million people. In endemic settings, schistosomiasis transmission is not always understood exclusively in biomedical terms. Community health workers (CHWs) contribute to schistosomiasis control through mass drug administration and health ...
Dianne Verhoeven   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biological Parameters of the Conical Snail Cochlicella acuta (MÜLLER, 1774) (Gastropoda: Cochlicellidae) under Laboratory Conditions [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2019
Biological parameters like as mating, pre-oviposition, oviposition, post-oviposition, and generation periods as well as growth rate of the pointed or conical snail Cochlicella acuta (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Cochlicellidae)were studied in the Plant ...
E . Abd El-All, Olfat Arafa
doaj   +1 more source

The Developmental Rate and Oxygen Consumption of Snail Eggs at Various Temperatures

open access: yesZeitschrift für Naturforschung B, 1965
Niedrige Temperaturen verzögern die Eientwicklung der Schnecken Australorbis glabratus und Lymnaea stagnalis stärker als ihren Sauerstoffverbrauch. Folglich bedarf die Embryonalentwicklung bei Minimaltemperaturen größerer Energie durch den Stoffwechsel.
openaire   +2 more sources

Impact of past and present management practices on the land snail community of nutrient-poor calcareous grasslands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Nutrient-poor, dry calcareous grasslands in Central Europe harbour an extraordinary high diversity of plants and invertebrates. Consequently, they are of high conservation value.
Boschi, Cristina
core   +1 more source

Intraguild predation by shore crabs affects mortality, behavior, growth, and densities of California horn snails

open access: yesEcosphere, 2016
The California horn snail, Cerithideopsis californica, and the shore crabs, Pachygrapsus crassipes and Hemigrapsus oregonensis, compete for epibenthic microalgae, but the crabs also eat snails.
J. Lorda   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIUM [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 2015
Infection with Dicrocoelium dendriticum in humans is seldom to be reported in Egypt. This liver fluke, which commonly infects ruminants, has a complex life cycle with two intermediate hosts; the land snail and the ant.
ABDALLAH MOHAMMAD, OSAMA ABD ELLA
doaj   +1 more source

New Insights Into Pathogenesis, Diagnostics, and Therapeutic Options for Canine Angiostrongylosis

open access: yesJournal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To provide a comprehensive overview of Angiostrongylus vasorum infection in dogs, with a particular emphasis on recent developments in the understanding of disease pathophysiology and an update on developments in diagnostic and therapeutic options.
Iris Elgueta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minor Risk to Contract Metazoan Parasites via the Consumption of Edible Snails, Born and Reared in France

open access: yesZoonoses and Public Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a context of food security of animal consumption and diversification of protein sources, we have studied the risks to contract metazoan parasites through the consumption of ‘gros‐gris’ snails (Cornu aspersum maximum) sampled in 12 French farms.
Claudia Gerard, Armelle Ansart
wiley   +1 more source

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