Schistosomiasis is a chronic, parasitic disease, infecting more than 207 million people, mostly from Africa, with an estimated 700 million people at risk in 74 endemic countries. One of strategies to eradicate this disease is biocontrol of its vector snail. Lab experiments and field survey have been carried out to investigate the impact and the relationship between the exotic crayfish; Procamba...

The molluscicidal activity of Commiphora molmol (myrrh) water suspension showed that Bulinus truncatus snails were found to be about 3 times more susceptible than Biomphalaria alexandrina snails. The 24-hour LC50 values recorded were 46.4 and 145.8 ppm, respectively. There was a significant negative correlation between LC values and exposure periods. The present study is yet the first attempt t...

This study evaluated the molluscicidal activity against schistosomiasis-transmitting snail (Biomphalaria glabrata) of nanoemulsion Thymus vulgaris L. essential oil. The plant material was collected in municipality São Luís (MA). oil extracted by hydrodistillation at 100 °C for 3h, with chemical characterization performed Gas Chromatography coupled to Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS). nanoemulsions wer...

This study documented the population dynamics of Biomphalaria and associated natural infections with digenetic trematodes, along the shores of Lake Albert and Lake Victoria, recording local physicochemical factors. Over a two-and-a-half-year study period with monthly sampling, physicochemical factors were measured at 12 survey sites and all freshwater snails were collected. Retained Biomphalari...

In this paper, the forth of a series dealing with the survey of freshwater gastropods of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the results of collections carried out in the Sul Fluminense Mesoregion from 2000 to 2002 are presented and revealed the occurrence of 18 species: Antillorbis nordestensis; Biomphalaria glabrata; Biomphalaria peregrina; Biomphalaria straminea; Biomphalaria tenagophila; Drepanotr...

In the course of a trip to Ecuador I had the opportunity of collecting topotypic specimens of the following nominal species of pulmonate molluscs: Biomphalaria cousini Paraense, 1966; Planorbis equatorius Cousin, 1887; P. canonicus Cousin, 1887; Lymnaea cousini Jousseaume, 1887 and P. boetzkesi Miller, 1879. Additional findings were: Helisoma trivolvis (Say, 1817), Biomphalaria peregrina (Orbig...

Immunoelectrophoretic studies on common antigenicities were carried out by using rabbits sera immunized with the Puerto Rican strain of Schistosoma mansoni adult worms or eggs and antigens of several adult Biomphalaria snails and vice versa. As the result, S. mansoni adult worm extracts produced 8 bands both with extracts of Biomphalaria glabrata pigmentation and B. glabrata pigmentado, 3 to 4 ...