TY - BOOK AU - Rasha Mohamed Mohamed Gad Elkarim AU - Abdelhakim Saad Eldin Hanafy , AU - Ahmed Mohamed A. Osman , AU - Kamelia Abbas Elsayed , TI - Immunological study on the susceptible and resistant lymnaea natalensis snails to infection with fasciola gigantica in Egypt / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Rasha Mohamed Mohamed Gad Elkarim , KW - Circulating hemocytes KW - Fasciola gigantic KW - Lymnaea natalensis N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Zoology; Issued also as CD N2 - Fascioliasis is a zoonotic disease caused by fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica . In Egypt the snail lymnaea natalensis is the intermediate host of fasciola gigantica the etiological agent of fascioliasis . In the present study exposure of lymnaea natalensis snails to fasciola gigantica miracidia resulted typically in three susceptibility patterns : A) non - infected snails , b ) normal infections ER -