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“Experiment is the beginning of knowledge.” Nowhere has the truth of this motto been more evident than in the study of bilharzia. Indeed, in no other disease have its experimental studies been more rewarding. These have revealed the intermediate hosts of the parasites, their life cycles in the definitive hosts, the pathogenesis and pathology of the disease and the effect and value of drugs and, more recently, the biochemical and immunological reactions to the infection.
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Gear, J.H.S. (1967). Experimental Bilharzia. In: Mostofi, F.K. (eds) Bilharziasis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49777-3_25
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