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Artigos Originais • Rev. Saúde Pública 14 (2) • June 1980 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89101980000200010 linkcopy

Open-access Natural infection by Fasciola hepatica in Lymnaea columella in the Paraíba river valley, S. Paulo, Brazil

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Abstract

Infection rates of 1.22% and 0.14% were obtained in Lymnaea columella snails naturally infected by Fasciola hepatica. Samples of the snails were collected in Piquete, a municipality of Paraíba do Sul, a river valley area in the State of S. Paulo. Also observed was one of the 1052 specimen of the Lymnaea columella rediae which had xiphidiocercariae and rediae with Fasciola hepatica cercariae and metacercariae of Echinostomatidae.

Infection; Fasciola hepatica; Lymnaea columella

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