Schistosoma Nasale (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Schistosoma nasale is a species of digenetic trematode in the family Schistosomatidae. Schistosoma nasale was identified in 1933 by Dr. M. A. N. Rao at Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu, India, as a casuasative agent for "snoring disease" in cattle. The most important the first intermediate host is a freshwater snail Indoplanorbis exustus that may be the sole natural intermediate host for Schistosoma nasale (and other two Schistosoma species) on the Indian sub-continent. Other snails are also impolicated in transmission of Schistosoma nasale as its the first intermediate host and they include: Lymnaea luteola and Lymnaea acuminata.