| [freshwater snails of the campus of manguinhos, oswaldo cruz foundation, rio de janeiro, rj]. | a survey of freshwater gastropods of the campus of manguinhos, fundação oswaldo cruz, rio de janeiro, was carried out during the last two years aiming to compare the current species with those found at the beginning of this century. among 18 breeding sites in 880,000m2 of the surveyed area, 13 showed the following species: antillorbis nordestensis; biomphalaria glabrata; biomphalaria straminea; lymnaea columella; melanoides tuberculatus; physa cubensis; pomacea glauca and pomacea lineata. notabl ... | 2001 | 11460215 |
| freshwater snails and schistosomiasis mansoni in the state of rio de janeiro, brazil: i-- metropolitan mesoregion. | in order to elaborate a planorbid chart of the state of rio de janeiro a survey of freshwater gastropods in the metropolitan mesoregion of this state was performed and revealed the occurrence of 20 species: antillorbis nordestensis (lucena, 1954); biomphalaria glabrata (say, 1818); biomphalaria schrammi (crosse, 1864); biomphalaria straminea (dunker, 1848); biomphalaria tenagophila (orbigny, 1835); burnupia sp.; drepanotrema anatinum (orbigny, 1835); drepanotrema cimex (moricand, 1839); drepanot ... | 2001 | 11586447 |
| [schistosomiasis mansoni and distribution of freshwater mollusks in natural bodies of water in niterói, rio de janeiro state, brazil]. | the authors report on the distribution of freshwater mollusks in niterói, rio de janeiro state, brazil, and notification of schistosomiasis cases in this municipality from 1995 to 2000. all breeding sites favorable to freshwater mollusks were surveyed, showing the following species: antillorbis nordestensis (lucena, 1954), biomphalaria straminea (dunker, 1848), biomphalaria tenagophila (orbigny, 1835), drepanotrema anatinum (orbigny, 1835), lymnaea columella say, 1817, melanoides tuberculatus (m ... | 2002 | 12244379 |
| freshwater snails and schistosomiasis mansoni in the state of rio de janeiro, brazil: iii--baixadas mesoregion. | in this paper, the third of a series dealing with the survey of freshwater gastropods of the state of rio de janeiro, the results of collections carried out in the mesoregion baixadas from 2000 to 2002 are presented. twenty-two species, belonging to seven families, were found. as to the snail intermediate hosts of schistosoma mansoni, the most frequent species was biomphalaria tenagophila besides some new findings of biomphalaria straminea. no specimens were found harboring larval forms of s. ma ... | 2002 | 12426593 |
| freshwater snails and schistosomiasis mansoni in the state of rio de janeiro, brazil: ii--centro fluminense mesoregion. | during the course of a survey carried out from 2000 to 2001 in the centro fluminense mesoregion of the state of rio de janeiro 22 molluscan species were found. many of the records are new due to the dearth of previous studies. concerning the snail hosts of schistosoma mansoni, the most frequently encountered species was biomphalaria tenagophila, as it occurred in all the surveyed municipalities. there are new records of biomphalaria straminea and biomphalaria peregrina which is regarded as a pot ... | 2002 | 12219122 |
| freshwater snails and schistosomiasis mansoni in the state of rio de janeiro, brazil: iv - sul fluminense mesoregion. | in this paper, the forth of a series dealing with the survey of freshwater gastropods of the state of rio de janeiro, the results of collections carried out in the sul fluminense mesoregion from 2000 to 2002 are presented and revealed the occurrence of 18 species: antillorbis nordestensis; biomphalaria glabrata; biomphalaria peregrina; biomphalaria straminea; biomphalaria tenagophila; drepanotrema anatinum; drepanotrema cimex; drepanotrema lucidum; ferrissia sp.; gundlachia ticaga; gundlachia sp ... | 2004 | 15273799 |