Survey of digenetic trematode infection of freshwater snails taken from a brook in Pangarap Village, Novaliches, Quezon City

• Main Author: Resurreccion, Rafael Alexis
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1997
• Subjects: Trematoda; Snails; Digenea > Larvae; Infection; Cercariae
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/1459
• Institution: De La Salle University

A total of 100 snails each of Balanocochlis glans and Melanoides granifera were collected from a stream in Pangarap Village in Novaliches, Q.C. to survey for possible cercarial infection. Results showed Balanocochlis glans had no infection and 47 % of Melanoides granifera samples were infected. Out...