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4 unusual facts about Trematoda


Bladder stone

Urinary schistosomiasis, a disease caused by the digenean trematode Schistosoma haematobium, has been implicated in the development of vesical calculi.

Cucurbitin

Cucurbitin causes degenerative changes in the reproductive organs of parasitic flatworms called flukes.

Ketchowla Station

In 1874 a flock of 7,000 sheep from Ketchowla was stopped in the Coorong on the way to market by inspectors who detected several animals infected with fluke within the flock.

Schistosomiasis vaccine

A Schistosomiasis vaccine is a vaccine against Schistosomiasis (also known as bilharzia, bilharziosis or snail fever), a parasitic disease caused by several species of fluke of the genus Schistosoma.


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Eomecon

Extracts of this plant have been effective at eliminating the freshwater snail Oncomelania hupensis, the intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum, a fluke that causes schistosomiasis.

Filopaludina

from Vietnam serves as a second intermediate host for the parasitic fluke Echinostoma revolutum.

Ribeiroia ondatrae

Ribeiroia ondatrae is a parasite in the genus Ribeiroia, class Trematoda, Phylum Platyhelminthes, believed to be responsible for many of the recent increases in amphibian limb malformations, particularly missing, malformed, and extra hind legs.


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