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studies undertaken on the susceptibility of various local snails to some of the important human and animal trematodes found in iran have revealed that bulinus truncatus, the distribution of which is restricted to the province of khuzestan in the southwest of iran is the intermediate host of shistosoma haematobium, s. bovis and paramaphistomum microbothrium in this area.this snail is also suscep...

Schistosomes are digenean flukes, parasitic of birds, mammals and crocodiles. The family Schistosomatidae contains species of considerable medical and veterinary importance, which cause the disease schistosomiasis. Previous studies, both morphological and molecular, which have provided a good deal of information on the phylogenetics of this group, have been limited in the number of species inve...

background: schistosomiasis is considered as one of the most important infections in ruminants. the flukes are found in the blood vessels of animals. this parasite has been observed in many countries such as: turkmenistan, kazakhstan, iran, iraq and parts of europe. objectives: aim of this study was to determine the contamination of schistosoma turkestanicum in sheep in the central region of ma...