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Published on: September 4, 2014
[Seasonal occurrence of Dicrocoelium dendriticum in intermediate hosts]
1Wissenschaftsbereich Parasitologie der Sektion Tierproduktion, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DDR.
Abstract:
Epizootiological questions were studied on a permanent pasture of a farm situated in one of the dicrocoeliasis areas in the GDR during the 1986 grazing season. Helicella obvia snails and Formica fusca ants were found to be first and second intermediate hosts respectively. A total of 1,121 snails and 70 ants were dissected. The infestation rate with Dicrocoelium dendriticum stages in snails decreased in summer after the high spring peak and increased again in autumn. Paralysed ants were found only at temperatures below 20 degrees C. Parthenogenetic stages in snails were identified morphologically according to the structure of cercariae; the metacercariae isolated from the ants' body cavity were determined in animal experiments.
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