[A Retrospective Study on Planorbarius metidjensis and Its Role as a Potential Intermediate Host in the Transmission of Schistosoma haematobium in the Souss-Massa Region (Morocco)].
B Yacoubi, A Moukrim, P Vignoles, D Rondelaud, A Zekhnini
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Abstract
A retrospective research study was carried out by our team on Planorbarius metidjensis to highlight its epidemiological role as a potential host snail of Schistosoma haematobium in the Souss-Massa region. Contrary to the habitats colonized by Bulinus truncatus, the main host snail, those of P. metidjensis are located at the altitude of above 300 m. The best results of the experimental infections with S. haematobium were obtained using juvenile planorbids of 2 to 3 mm in diameter and a dose of five miracidia per snail. No snail naturally infected with the parasite was found when dissecting 3,457 adult bulinids and 2,470 adult planorbids. Despite the location of its habitats in altitude, P. metidjensis is a potential intermediate host of S. haematobium and it is important to follow these populations, as those of B. truncatus, in the future to avoid possible reoccurrence of indigenous cases of the disease.
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Le Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique et la société savante (SPE) dont il est la vitrine ont été créés en 1908 par Alphonse Laveran. Destiné, dans un premier temps, à servir de support à la publication des travaux des sociétaires présentés en séance sous forme de communication ou de mémoire, ce périodique est devenu, au fil du temps, une revue internationale francophone multidisciplinaire, ouverte à tous les médecins, vétérinaires, anthropologues et chercheurs travaillant dans le domaine de la médecine tropicale humaine et animale et de la santé publique dans les pays en voie de développement.
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