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Table 1.

Snail survival on day 30 post-exposure, prevalence of Fasciola hepatica infection, shell height of cercariae-shedding (CS) snails at their death, lengths of prepatent and patent periods, and number of metacercariae in four groups of pre-adults subjected to individual bimiracidial exposures and raised at 23 °C.

Snail species
Pseudosuccinea columella
Galba truncatula (controls)
Population Beni Suef Castelmoron Total Migné Thenay Total
Number of snails
 At exposure 100 100 200 100 100 200
 Day 30 (%) 94 (94.0) 87 (87.0) 181 (85.5) 65 (65.0) 74 (74.0) 139 (69.5)
Number of CS snails 36 29 65 40 51 91
Prevalence (%) 38.2 33.3 35.9 61.5 68.9 65.4
Shell height of CS snails (mm)* 10.2 ± 1.7 11.2 ± 1.4 10.6 ± 1.6 6.3 ± 1.0 6.5 ± 0.9 6.4 ± 0.9
Lengths (days)* 52.5 ± 8.8 49.8 ± 6.1 51.3 ± 7.6 42.1 ± 3.7 39.5 ± 4.5 40.6 ± 4.2
 Prepatent period
 Patent period 31.6 ± 12.4 27.3 ± 8.6 29.6 ± 10.7 21.3 ± 5.8 25.7 ± 8.2 23.7 ± 7.2
Metacercariae*
 Total 14,087 10,069 24,156 6556 9554 16,110
 Per CS snail 391.3 ± 125.2 347.2 ± 84.8 371.6 ± 107.1 163.9 ± 74.3 187.3 ± 80.4 177.0 ± 77.4
*

Mean value ± SD.

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