Journal of Veterinary Parasitology

SCOPUS
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue: 2

Penetration behaviour of cercariae of Schistosoma spindale (Montgomery, 1906)

  • Author:
  • Daniel Kathi, Joseph Agarapu1
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 185 to 186

1Department of Zoology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam-530003, A.P.  India.

Department of Zoology, Jagarlamudi Kuppuswamy Choudary College, Guntur-522 006, India.

*E-mail: daniel.kathi@yahoo.com.

Online published on 9 April, 2012.

Abstract

Video microscopic observations showed three behavioural patterns of penetration of cercariae of S. spindale. The importance of bio-mechanical, bio-chemical and bio-hydrodynamic activities were described.

Keywords

Cercariae, Penetration, Schistosoma spindale