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Molluscs interfering with the capacity of Fasciola hepatica miracidia to infect Lymnaea truncatula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Niels Ørnbjerg Christensen ,
Peter Nansen  and
Flemming Frandsen
Niels Ørnbjerg Christensen
Affiliation:
The Danish Agricultural and Veterinary Research Council Parasitological Research Group, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Bülowsvej 13, DK-1870 Copenhagen V, Denmark
Peter Nansen
Affiliation:
The Danish Agricultural and Veterinary Research Council Parasitological Research Group, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Bülowsvej 13, DK-1870 Copenhagen V, Denmark
Flemming Frandsen
Affiliation:
Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Jcegersborg Allé 1 D, DK-2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark
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Fasciola hepatica miracidia labelled with radioselenium were used to study aspects of their host-finding capacity by determining radioactivity subsequently taken up by exposed ‘target’ snails (Lymnaea truncatula). Possible interfering effects exercised by a number of non-host snails and bivalves were examined in linear test channels. The infection rate (radioactivity) among ‘target’ snails was markedly lowered when non-host Lymnaea species (L. pereger, L. palustris, L. stagnalis) were interposed as ‘decoys’. The prosobranch Bithynia tentaculata and the bivalve Sphaeriwm corneum exhibited a slight decoy effect whereas pulmonate species like Anisus vortex, Gyraulus albus, Planorbis planorbis, Physa fontinalis did not interfere with miracidial host-finding.

Other experiments showed that miracidia are more strongly attracted towards L. truncatula than L. pereger. Miracidia are not able to penetrate intact egg clusters of L. truncatula.

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Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , October 1976 , pp. 161 - 167
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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