Dicrocoeliasis and eurytremiasis

  • Vinai Kumar
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Abstract

Small to medium sized, elongate, flattened distomes with delicate tegument and loose, translucent parenchyma. Suckers are not far apart. Oesophagus with a pharynx, caeca simple, do not quite reach the posterior end. Genital pore in front of ventral sucker, median. Cirrus and small cirrus sac present. Testes variable in position, placed not far behind the ventral sucker. Ovary post-testicular. Vitelline glands well developed, occupy lateral fields of the mid body. Uterus initially follows descending and then ascending course, uterine folds fill the posterior body and contain numerous small, brown coloured eggs.

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Bile Duct Intermediate Host Definitive Host Ventral Sucker Oral Sucker 
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  • Vinai Kumar
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  1. 1.Institute of Tropical MedicineAntwerpBelgium

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