metacercaria


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metacercaria

(ˌmɛtəsəˈkɛərɪə)
n
(Zoology) the final larval form of a trematode, in which the larva is encysted, tailless and infective
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Animal ingests metacercaria and the worm migrates to the liver where it causes extensive damage and the mature worm inhabits the bile duct (Seldemir 2000).
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SMALL RUMINANT FASCIOLOSIS IN SELECTED REGIONS OF AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Increased parasitism of limpets by a Trematode metacercaria in fisheries management areas of Central Chile: effects on host growth and reproduction.
Reproductive output of two benthic resources (Fissurella latimarginata and Loxechinus albus) under different management regimes along the coast of central Chile
Con respecto al sexo de los animales, de las 12 muestras positivas por al menos alguna de las tecnicas diagnosticas, 11 reses fueron hembras y solo en un macho se reporto la infeccion (p: 0,015), aspecto que coincide con lo reportado en otras investigaciones realizadas en diferentes paises (14, 23, 26) y en donde se asocia con los sistemas de produccion, debido a un mayor tiempo de permanencia de las hembras en pastos, por las practicas asociadas a la cria de bovinos y produccion lechera y por ende mas probabilidad de exponerse a plantas con la metacercaria (5).
Prevalencia de fasciolosis en bovinos de Costa Rica (2014). Comparacion de cuatro tecnicas diagnosticas
Santa Catarina organisms (2012) Holothuriophilus Boehs and Santa Catarina tomentosus Magalhaes (2004) Metacercaria Da Silva et al.
A status assessment of perkinsiosis, bonamiosis, and mateiliosis in commercial marine bivalves from Southern Brazil
On the infection of birds and mammals with the cercaria and metacercaria of the eye-fluke, Philophthalmus.
Trematode fluke Procerovum varium as cause of ocular inflammation in children, South India
The definitive avian host consumes the final intermediate host containing the metacercaria, and adult fluke development proceeds.
Detection and management of air sac trematodes (Szidatitrema species) in captive multispecies avian exhibits
and two unidentified metacercariae referred to as Metacercaria 1 and Metacercaria 2 (Digenea).
Structure of the parasite infracommunity of Sciades proops from the Japaratuba River Estuary, Sergipe, Brazil/Estrutura da infracomunidade parasitaria de Sciades proops (Valenciennes, 1840) (Siluriformes, Ariidae) do Estuario do Rio Japaratuba, Sergipe, Brasil
Oliveira SA, Blazquez FJH, Antunes SA, Maia AAM (2007) Metacercaria de Ascocotyle (Phagicola) longa Ransom, 1920 (Digenea: Heterophyidae), em Mugil platanus, no estuario de Cananeia, SP, Brasil.
Research of ascocotyle (Phagicola) longa in heat treated fillets of mullet (Mugil platanus)
oocysts and metacercaria of the trematode Proctoeces sp.
Parasite Inspection in Five Commercially Important Oyster Species (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Pakistan
multifiliis; an unidentified digenean metacercaria on gills; crustacean such as A.
Parasitic Infection in an Imported Fish Fantail a Variety of Goldfish Carassius auratus L. in Pakistan
These cercariae developed into metacercaria (infective larval stage) within 24 hours at 27oC.
Does Pakistan provide optimum condition for endemicity of Fasciolosis?
They briefly redescribed the metacercaria from Clarias sp.
New records of digenean parasites of Clarias gariepinus (Pisces: Clariidae) from the Okavango Delta, Botswana, with description of Thaparotrema botswanensis sp. n. (Plathelminthes: Trematoda)

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