| acanthoparyphium sp. and other metazoan symbionts of the american oyster, crassostrea virginica, from south texas. | in this study, we investigated oysters, crassostrea virginica , from laguna madre in south texas, where a 45-yr old study recorded metacercarial infections of the echinostomatid trematode, acanthoparyphium spinulosum , an asian relative of which, acanthoparyphium tyosenense, has been associated with human infections via the ingestion of raw mollusks. in an effort to examine the base-line infection parameters of acanthoparyphium sp. in oysters, we examined the effect of distance from the shorelin ... | 2013 | 23641833 |