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  • Human intestinal flukes Haplorchris taichui and Haplorchris pumilio in their intermediate hosts, freshwater snails of the families Thiaridae and Pachylidae, in southern Thailand

    Publicado: Berlin Museum für Naturkunde Berlin 2011

    Autor(es): Krailas, Dunagduen

    Ubicación: Centro de Documentación INVEMAR

    ISSN: 1435-1935

    Palabras clave: Trematoda, Heterophyidae, Cercarial infection, Infection rates, Melanoides, Neoradina

The intestinal flukes Haplorchis taichui (Nishigori, 1924) and Haplorchis pumilio (Loos, 1899) (family Heterophyidae) are mong the most important food-borne parasitic zoonoses found in Southeast Asia. Here, we report on a study of infection rates in freshwatersnails of the two Cerithioidean families Thiaridae and Pachychilidae in the south of Thailand.