Shereen Mahfouz Mansour

Immunological study on susceptible and resistant bulinus truncatus snails to infection with schistosoma haematobium / دراسة مناعية على قواقع بولينس ترنكاتس القابلة والمقاومة للعدوى بشيستوسوما هيماتوبيوم Shereen Mahfouz Mansour ; Supervised Abdelhakim Saad Eldin , Ahmed Mohamed Osman , Fathiya Ali Mohamed Gawish - Cairo : Shereen Mahfouz Mansour , 2010 - 119P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Zoology

The comparative studies of the susceptible and resistant snails of Bulinus truncatus ( Gastropoda : Pulmonata ) individually exposed to miracidia of Schistosoma haematobium conducted from 1 to 7 weeks post - exposure ( WPE ) . Histological section of susceptible and resistant snails revealed that many single , multiple , mature and migratory mother sporocysts were observed in the foot , head , lip , tentacles , mantle , anus , buccal mass , neck , kidney , oesophagus , respiratory epithelium of the lung and pericardial cavity of the heart of susceptible snails



Bulinus truncatus Mother sporocyst Schistosoma haematobium