| sharing schistosomes: the elephant schistosome bivitellobilharzia nairi also infects the greater one-horned rhinoceros (rhinoceros unicornis) in chitwan national park, nepal. | because the digenetic trematode fauna of nepal is poorly known, we began to search for schistosomes in and around chitwan national park (cnp) of southern nepal. both domestic and wild indian elephants (elephus maximus) are present, and we found one of two dung samples from wild elephants and 1 of 22 (4.5%) dung samples from domestic elephants to be positive for schistosome eggs. the morphology of the eggs and both cox1 and 28s sequences derived from the eggs/miracidia were consistent with bivite ... | 2014 | 23113960 |