Occurrence of digenean parasites in freshwater snails in the Murrumbidgee catchment area, Australia.

ABSTRACT: Freshwater snails are important hosts in the life cycles of many medically important parasites, particularly for digenetic trematodes such as liver flukes and schistosomes. The current study was conducted to determine the infection of freshwater snails with parasites that can potentially be transmitted to humans within the Murrumbidgee catchment area which is an area of widespread intensive aquaculture in Australia. A total of 116 freshwater snails, belonging to three species (Isidorella hainesii, Glyptophysa novaehollandica and Bullastra lessoni), were examined for the presence of parasites in both man-made and natural environments. The analysis of sequence data, including the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA, small subunit (18S) ribo

SUBMITTER: Shamsi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10504687 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature