The influence of Calicophoron microbothrium on the susceptibility of Bulinus tropicus to Schistosoma bovis.

Abstract:

:A total of 480 snails were collected from 3 habitats on the Mau Escarpment, Kenya, and were identified as Bulinus tropicus. Of the 351 snails examined alive in London, 75 were infected with Calicophoron microbothrium, 39 with C. microbothrium and Schistosoma bovis, 1 with S. bovis, 24 with other species of trematodes and 212 were uninfected. Examination of digestive glands of B. tropicus either uninfected or infected with both C. microbothrium and S. bovis demonstrated that it is possible to differentiate between parasite and host enzyme activity using glucose phosphate isomerase. However, malate dehydrogenase enables a much clearer differentiation between the enzyme activity of the schistosome and that of the amphistome. Laboratory snail infection experiments demonstrated that it is possible successfully to infect B. tropicus with S. bovis if the snails have previously been exposed to miracidia of C. microbothrium.

journal_name

Parasitol Res

journal_title

Parasitology research

authors

Southgate VR,Brown DS,Warlow A,Knowles RJ,Jones A

doi

10.1007/BF00931134

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-01-01 00:00:00

pages

381-91

issue

5

eissn

0932-0113

issn

1432-1955

journal_volume

75

pub_type

杂志文章