The Comparative Tissue Reaction of Two Strains of Australorbis glabratus to Infection with Schistosoma mansoni
- 1 August 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Parasitology
- Vol. 38 (4) , 362-366
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3273773
Abstract
A study of sections of 50 snails of a Puerto Rican and a Brazilian strain of A. glabratus revealed differences which account, in part, for the failure to infect the latter strain with a Puerto Rican strain of S. mansoni In the susceptible Puerto Rican strain, the parasite develops apparently without any effective interference on the part of the snail; in the Brazilian strain the parasite is destroyed and removed, usually within 24-48 hrs. after penetration. As at least a part of this response, there is a marked cellular infiltration around the parasite. A fibrotic type of walling-off reaction also appears to be characteristic of this response.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A Study on the Comparative Susceptibility of Snail Vectors to Strains of Schistosoma mansoniJournal of Parasitology, 1949