| susceptibility of avian hosts to experimental gymnophalloides seoi infection. | to determine whether avian species are susceptible to infection with gymnophalloides seoi (a human-infecting intestinal trematode), we exposed 7 species of birds with metacercariae obtained from oysters. the birds were necropsied at days 2, 4, and 6 postinfection (pi). the highest worm recovery at day 6 pi was obtained from the kentish plover (charadrius alexandrinus; mean = 56.0%), followed by the mongolian plover (c. mongolus; 49.3%), and the grey plover (pluvialis squatarola; 32.3%). in contr ... | 2001 | 11318587 |