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Note on a Schistosoma Cercaria with Four Pairs of Flame Cells in the Body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

R. G. Archibald
Affiliation:
From the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Khartoum.
A. Marshall
Affiliation:
From the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Khartoum.

Extract

1. A brief account is given of a schistosoma cercaria obtained from Bulinus truncatus possessing four pairs of flame cells in the body.

A monkey, Cercopithecus sebaeus, was experimentally infected with this cercaria, adult male and female S. haematobium being formed in the mesenteric veins, and terminal spined ova in the sub-mucosa of the colon.

The view is expressed that this cercaria was probably an aberrant form of the cercaria of S. haematobium.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1933

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