Volume 24, Number 3—March 2018
Research Letter
Fishborne Zoonotic Trematodes Transmitted by Melanoides tuberculata Snails, Peru
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Figure. Species of heterophyids transmitted by Melanoides tuberculata snails in Peru. A–D) Centrocestus formosanus: cercaria (pleurolophocercous type) (A), encysted metacercariae in gills of Poecilia reticulata (B, C), and adult parasite obtained in experimentally infected mouse (D). E–H) Haplorchis pumilio: cercaria (parapleurolophocercous type) (E), metacercariae found at the base of the caudal fin of P. reticulata (F–G), and adult recovered in experimentally infected mouse (H). Scale bars indicate 50 μm in panels A, C, D, G, and H, 200 μm in panels B, E, and F.