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To supply more documentary evidence for the effect of parasitic infection on activity of neurosecretory centres in the cerebral ganglia of the snail host, caudo-dorsal and light green cells of adult individuals of Lymnaea stagnalis naturally infected with digenean parthenites were subjected to karyometric analysis. In infected animals significant enlargement of nuclear volumes of both examined types of neurosecretory cells was ascertained. Mean nuclear volume of the light green cells in snails infected with Furcocercariae was significantly lower in comparison with the individuals infected with parthenites from groups Echinostomata and Xiphidiocercariae. In remaining cases differences in nuclear volumes among subpopulations distinguished on the ground of an infection factor were not statistically significant.
Lymnaeid snails of the genus Radix serve as intermediate hosts of some schistosomes and fasciolids. In Europe, delineation of species within the genus Radix is unresolved and, therefore, spectrum of snail hosts susceptible to trematode infections is under discussion. We used and compared three criteria for species delineation using snails collected at 43 localities. (a) Sequence analysis of ITS-2 rDNA disclosed that the collected snails belong to four species — R. auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758), R. peregra (Müller, 1774), R. lagotis (Schrank, 1803) and R. labiata (Rossmaessler, 1835) (criteria and names are based on the work of Bargues et al. 2001). Occurrence of R. peregra in the Czech Republic was confirmed by molecular data for the first time. (b) Characterization of reproductive system disclosed differences in location, size and shape of bursa copulatrix and its ductus. Unfortunately, some R. labiata specimens shared morphological features of reproductive organs with R. lagotis. (c) Statistical analysis of shell morphology proved that significant differences exist among particular species. One prediction model showed that correct classification of species may be achieved in 82-84% of cases. However, identification of individual snails in the field (without knowledge of respective snail population and use of statistical tools) still remains a complicated issue due to overlaps of shell characteristics. Concerning the role in trematode transmission, R. lagotis, R. labiata and R. peregra are susceptible to Trichobilharzia regenti. Also, successful experimental infections of R. lagotis and R. labiata by Fascioloides magna were accomplished.
A total of 2802 molluscs from two fishponds and one swamp in the vicinity of České Budějovice, South Bohemia, were examined between 1998 and 2000. A total of 12 species of molluscs were infected (33.9%, n = 951) with larval trematodes of 28 species (26 species were represented by cercariae, 8 species by metacercariae; 6 species were found both as cercariae and metacercariae). The dominant species found as cercariae were Tylodelphys excavata (Diplostomidae), Plagiorchis elegans (Plagiorchiidae), Echinostoma spiniferum sensu Našincová (1992) and E. revolutum (Echinostomatidae). Three cases of double infections with cercariae were found; metacercariae often occurred together in one snail (up to five species). The most infected hosts were Planorbarius corneus (78.2%, n = 662), Lymnaea corvus (65.5%, n = 55) and Lymnaea stagnalis (47.1%, n = 473). Most of the trematode species reported mature in birds and are widely distributed in other parts of Europe. The common species found as cercariae are illustrated.
In Iran, more than 100 humans and many livestock species have shown to be infected in the northern province of Mazandaran, at the Caspian Sea shore. This picture suggested the need for further multidisciplinary studies to ascertain the extent of the problematics. Three species of lymnaeids were found throughout most of Mazandaran: Lymnaea (Stagnicola) palustris, a secondary intermediate host of Fasciola hepatica; Galba truncatula, the main intermediate host of F. hepatica: and Radix gedrosiana, a member of the auricularia complex transmitting F. gigantica. Environmental microhabitat requirements are different for the three species, but sometimes the three were found in the same locality. The geographical distribution of the three lymnaeids agrees with the distribution of human and animal fascioliasis, differences in fascioliasis prevalences between western and eastern Mazandaran not appearing to be related with lymnaeids. Moreover, the overlapping distributions of G. truncatula and R. gedrosiana also agree with the overlapping distributions of F. hepatica and F. gigantica detected in Mazandaran animals. Although the three lymnaeid species may be found in all the months, interesting differences were detected. Whereas L. (S.) palustris appears to be more or less stable throughout the year, with only one acrophase around June, G. truncatula and R. gedrosiana showed an evident biseasonal distribution, with abundance and population density peaks in spring-beginning of summer and autumn. Such lymnaeid population biseasonality suggests a higher contamination risk by the two fasciolid species for both humans and animals in these two seasons and the corresponding detection of an increase of acute human cases attending the health centres. However, lymnaeid population dynamics do not explain the main peak of human diagnosed patients in the February-March period in Mazandaran. Peculiar culinary habits, as the custom of producing and stocking the traditional "delar" and its use as condiment sauce for many vegetables and food, may explain this chronological disagreement, tacking into account the long viability that fasciolid metacercariae can reach.
Acid and neutral lipids in epithelial cells building tubules of the digestive gland of snails naturally infected with digenean larvae were stained with nil blue sulphate. Strong decrease in number of phospholipids granules in secretory cells, as well as in calcium cells in the infected glands was observed. The larvae caused also decrease of number of neutral lipids in both types of cells, but these changes were much smaller and did not refer to small granules laying in top parts of the epithelial cells. Changes in number of lipids granules were limited only to the cells of tubules damaged by parasites.
The effect of exposure of juvenile individuals of Lymnaea stagnalis to infectious eggs of Opisthioglyphe ranae on dynamics of their growth was investigated under controlled conditions in laboratory. In infected snails enlargement of body weight and linear parameters of shell were observed. Any differences in shell shape, analysed on the base of regression of shell width towards to its height, were not ascertained in uninfected snails and those infected with parthenites of the trematode. The findings with this host-parasite system are discussed in relation to possible mechanisms of pathogenesis of somatic gigantism in other trematode-snail interactions.
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