Infection of Hamsters with Terminal-spined Schistosomes

1 September 1972

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Helminthology

Vol. 46 (3) , 291-296
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x00024445

Abstract

Four methods of infecting hamsters with S. mattheei and S. haematobium were compared. The ring method was found to be the most efficient and the cercariae of both species penetrated in 10—20 minutes.

Keywords

TERMINAL SPINED
SPINED SCHISTOSOMES
HAMSTERS
RING METHOD
FOUR METHODS
SPECIES PENETRATED
SCHISTOSOMES FOUR
MINUTES

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Journal of Parasitology, 1969
The infection of laboratory hosts with cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni and the recovery of the adult worms
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