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The name was given in honor of Theodor Bilharz (1825–1862), a German physician who discovered the Schistosoma worms in Egypt in 1851–1852 and described them originally as Diplostomum .
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Mehlhorn, H. (2016). Bilharziosis. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_398-2
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