Children, snails and worms: the Brachylaima cribbi story
Andrew R ButcherSA Pathology
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
SA, Australia
Email: andrew.butcher.cecc@gmail.com
Microbiology Australia 37(1) 30-33 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA16012
Published: 11 February 2016
Abstract
Brachylaimids are parasitic trematode fluke worms that have a terrestrial life cycle involving land snails and slugs as the first and/or second intermediate hosts for the cercarial and metacercarial larval stages. A wide range of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians are the definitive hosts for the adult worm.
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