Publications
| storage and incubation of echinostoma revolutum eggs recovered from wild branta canadensis, and their infectivity to lymnaea tomentosa snails. | echinostoma revolutum eggs recovered from naturally infected wild canada geese (branta canadensis) were cold stored (4-6 degrees c) for up to 72 weeks. successful hatching followed incubation for from 6 to 8 days at an optimum temperature of between 25 and 30 degrees c. a partial life cycle from adult worm to metacercarial encystment in lymnaea tomentosa snails was completed in the laboratory. snails were infected both by free miracidia and by ingestment of unhatched embryonated eggs. infection ... | 2005 | 16336715 |
| a survey of waterfowl for echinostomes and schistosomes from lake wanaka and the waitaki river watershed, new zealand. | waterfowl from lake wanaka and the waitaki lakes watershed of new zealand's south island were surveyed to find natural hosts with adult echinostomes and schistosomes to provide sufficient numbers of eggs for laboratory studies. the canada goose (branta canadensis) was found to host an echinostome determined to be a new zealand strain of echinostoma revolutum. the new zealand scaup (aythya novaeseelandia) concurrently hosts three species of echinostomes (e. revolutum, echinoparyphium cinctum and ... | 2006 | 16469170 |