| experimental final hosts of metagonimus hakubaensis (trematoda: heterophyidae) and their suitability to the fluke. | seven laboratory mammal and bird species were orally inoculated with 200-1,000 encysted metagonimus hakubaensis metacercariae that had been isolated from naturally infected lampreys (lethenteron reissneri) captured in aomori prefecture. at 8 and 15 days post-infection, adult flukes were recovered from all of the laboratory animals tested, and therefore, hamster, rat, mouse, dog, cat, chicken and quail were considered as final hosts of m. hakubaensis. recovery rates of the fluke were higher in do ... | 2014 | 25649951 |
| discovery of natural infection by metagonimus hakubaensis shimazu, 1999 (trematoda: heterophyidae) in japanese water shrews (chimarrogale platycephala) in japan. | a total of 611 preserved adult metagonimus spp. specimens recovered from 32 of 53 japanese water shrews (chimarrogale platycephala) that had previously been collected in aomori prefecture between june 1994 and august 1996, were examined in this study. morphological examination revealed that 603 of these flukes were identical to m. hakubaensis shimazu, 1999, and that the others were m. takahashii suzuki, 1930 (n=4), m. otsurui saito et shimizu, 1968 (n=2), and m. miyatai saito et al., 1997 (n=2). ... | 2014 | 25131808 |