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Table 2.
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 quinquemiracidial exposures and raised at 23 °C.
| Snail species |
Pseudosuccinea columella
|
Galba truncatula (controls) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | Beni Suef | Castelmoron | Total | Migné | Thenay | Total |
| Number of snails | ||||||
| At exposure | 100 | 100 | 200 | 100 | 100 | 200 |
| Day 30 (%) | 92 (92.0) | 81 (81.0) | 173 (86.5) | 52 (52.0) | 45 (45.0) | 97 (48.5) |
| Number of CS snails | 57 | 43 | 100 | 44 | 35 | 79 |
| Prevalence (%) | 61.9 | 53.0 | 57.8 | 84.6 | 77.7 | 81.4 |
| Shell height of CS snails (mm)* | 12.1 ± 1.9 | 11.3 ± 2.1 | 11.7 ± 2.0 | 6.0 ± 0.8 | 6.6 ± 0.9 | 6.3 ± 0.8 |
| Lengths (days)* | 58.2 ± 7.1 | 60.4 ± 5.6 | 59.1 ± 6.5 | 49.2 ± 5.3 | 51.4 ± 5.2 | 50.1 ± 5.2 |
| Prepatent period | ||||||
| Patent period | 32.6 ± 9.3 | 37.2 ± 8.5 | 34.5 ± 9.0 | 19.6 ± 3.2 | 14.3 ± 7.1 | 17.2 ± 5.5 |
| Metacercariae* | ||||||
| Total | 25,856 | 18,065 | 43,921 | 12,136 | 8687 | 20,823 |
| Per CS snail | 453.6 ± 127.8 | 420.1 ± 105.3 | 439.2 ± 118.1 | 275.8 ± 74.9 | 248.2 ± 114.7 | 263.5 ± 92.5 |
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