schistosome in English
noun
1
a parasitic flatworm that needs two hosts to complete its life cycle. The immature form infests freshwater snails, and the adult lives in the blood vessels of birds and mammals, causing bilharzia in humans.
By examining schistosomes that infect human hosts living near separate watercourses within a single village, it should be possible to determine the degree to which the parasite population is genetically subdivided.
noun
blood fluke
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1. Bilharzia definition, schistosome
2. What does Bilharzia mean? Schistosome
3. Objective To delineate the m orp hology and ecology of a new human schistosome species.
4. After the discoverer, the infection (generally including all schistosome infections) was called bilharzia or Bilharziasis.
5. Objective To study the effect of killing schistosome eggs by the family - size biogas tanks.