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Gynaecotyla squatarolae (Digenea: Microphallidae) from rats experimentally infected with metacercariae from the shore crab, Macrophthalmus dilatatus
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- Issue Date
- 2007-09-19
- Publisher
- Korean Society for Parasitology
- Citation
- Korean J Parasitol. 2007 Sep;45(3):199-204.
- Keywords
- Animals ; Brachyura/*parasitology ; Female ; Host-Parasite Interactions ; Korea ; Life Cycle Stages/physiology ; Male ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Time Factors ; Trematoda/*anatomy & histology/isolation & purification/*pathogenicity ; Trematode Infections/parasitology/*veterinary
- Abstract
- Metacercariae of Gynaecotyla squatarolae (Digenea: Microphallidae) were discovered from the shore crab, Macrophthalmus dilatatus, purchased at a market in a coastal town of Taean-Eup, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea. Their adult flukes were confirmed by experimental infection of rats. The metacercariae of G. squatarolae were elliptical (391.1 x 362.5 micrometer), and the excysted metacercariae had progenetic genital organs, including the ovary and testes. To obtain adult flukes, 6 Sprague-Dawley rats were fed 500 metacercariae each, and killed at days 2, 4, and 6 post-infection. The adult flukes were identified as G. squatarolae (Yamaguti, 1934) Yamaguti, 1939, based on morphological characters, including 2 ventral suckers (1 large and 1 small), a large genital atrium equipped with the cirrus and the metraterm, separated male and female genital pores, a transversely long cirrus pouch, and extensive vitelline follicles. In the present study, it has been first proven that the shore crab M. dilatatus is a second intermediate host for G. squatarolae in the Republic of Korea.
- ISSN
- 0023-4001 (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17876165
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/29392
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