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Aquatic snails of the Jonglei region, southern Sudan, and transmission of trematode parasites

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Limnology and Marine Biology in the Sudan

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology ((DIHY,volume 21))

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An account is given of the aquatic gastropod molluscs obtained in a survey made to assess future ecological effects of the Jonglei Canal now under construction in the Sudd region of southern Sudan. A total of about 23 species of aquatic snail lives in this region, of which a number are utilised as intermediate hosts by trematode parasites infecting man, livestock and wild herbivores, causing the diseases schistosomiasis, fascioliasis and amphistomiasis. Public health and veterinary authorities should be alert to the possibility that the Jonglei Canal will increase snail populations and raise the prevalence of parasitic diseases.

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  1. T. Fison

    Present address: Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, UK

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  1. Experimental Taxonomy Unit, Zoology Department, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK

    D. S. Brown, V. R. Southgate & C. A. Wright

  2. Jonglei Range Ecology Survey, Sudan

    T. Fison

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Brown, D.S., Fison, T., Southgate, V.R., Wright, C.A. (1984). Aquatic snails of the Jonglei region, southern Sudan, and transmission of trematode parasites. In: Dumont, H.J., el Moghraby, A.I., Desougi, L.A. (eds) Limnology and Marine Biology in the Sudan. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6557-7_28

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