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

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...

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Main Authors: Cecília Pereira de Souza, Liana K. Jannotti-Passos, Sueleny Silva Ferreira, Ivan Barbosa Machado Sampaio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 1995-08-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651995000400006