title: Natural and experimental infection of planorbids from the Island of Santa Catarina (Brazil).
abstract: Studies of eight localities on the Island of Santa Catarina revealed the presence of three species of the molluscan family Planorbidae: Biomphalaria tenagophila, Drepanotrema cimex and Biomphalaria oligoza, the first one being naturally infected by Cercaria ocellifera, a furcocercaria with morphological characteristics of Cercaria caratinguensis, and by an unknown furcocercaria. Drepanotrema cimex was infected by a furcocercaria with characteristics of C. caratinguensis and by C. macrogranulosa. No natural infection was found in B. oligoza. B. tenagophila showed no susceptibility to the experimental infection by the BH-MG strain of Schistosoma mansoni from Belo Horizonte and maintained at laboratory in B. glabrata snails.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Espíndola
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Hofmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001700:Biomphalaria / Q000469:parasitology; D001938:Brazil; D004199:Disease Vectors; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D007814:Larva; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission; D012908:Snails / Q000469:parasitology*