Influence of temperature on development of Schistosoma mansoni female cercariae in Biomphalaria glabrata Influência da temperatura sobre o desenvolvimento da cercária fêmea de Schistosoma mansoni em Biomphalaria glabrata

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Cecília Pereira de Souza, Liana K. Jannotti-Passos, Sueleny Silva Ferreira, Ivan Barbosa Machado Sampaio
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1995
• Subjects: Schistosoma mansoni; Female cercariae; Development; Temperature; Biomphalaria glabrata; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Neves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651995000400006; https://doaj.org/article/cf824b18acbe4cfa9d6b5492f85e197c

In these experiments the ratio of male to female S. mansoni larvae in D. glabrata from Belo Horizonte and Ribeirão das Neves Minas Gerais, Brazil, either reared in laboratoty or collected in the field, varied from 1:1 to 1:1.3 or 1.4:1. Cercariae of LE strain of Schistosoma mansoni, shed by 39 snail...