Korean J Parasitol.  1988 Sep;26(3):189-197. 10.3347/kjp.1988.26.3.189.

Metacercariae of Echinostoma cinetorchis encysted in the fresh water snail, Hippeutis(Helicorbis) cantori, and their development in rats and mice

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Parasitology and Institute of Endemic Diseases, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 110-460, Korea.
  • 2Department of Parasitology, Inje Medical College, Busan 614-112, Korea.
  • 3Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Gyong-Sang National University, Chinju 660-280, Korea.

Abstract

The fresh water snail, Hippeutis(Helicorbis) cantori, caught from the rice paddies in Namyangju-gun, Gyeonggi-do, was found to be a new second intermediate host of E. cinetorchis in Korea. The metacercariae were found from 89(76.7 %) out of 116 snails examined and the average metacercarial burden was 4.7 per infected snails. Some developmental characteristics of E. cinetorchis were observed after experimental infection of the metacercariae to rats and mice.


MeSH Terms

parasitology-helminth-termatoda
Echinostoma cinetorchis
Hippeutis cantori
metacercaria
epidemiology
development
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