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Table 1 Numbers of Galba truncatula harbouring Calicophoron daubneyi according to season and snail size

From: Transmission of Calicophoron daubneyi and Fasciola hepatica in Galicia (Spain): Temporal follow-up in the intermediate and definitive hosts

  

No. of snails infected/ No. of snails collected

No. of snails harbouring different larval stages of the parasite

Year

Season

< 3 mm

3–3.9 mm

4–4.9 mm

5–5.9 mm

6–6.9 mm

≥ 7 mm

Total

2007

Summer

0/1

1/9

1c

1/6

1c

1/3

1c

  

3/19

3c

Autumn

 

0/3

    

0/3

2008

Winter

1/13

1b

0/33

4/67

2a 2b

3/75

3a

1/41

1b

0/5

9/234

5a 4b

Spring

5/11

5b

17/39

4a 13b

4/23

4b

1/12

1b

3/24

1a 1b 1c

1/12

1b

31/121

5a 25b 1c

Summer

1/8

1a

10/53

7a 2b 1c

2/23

2a

0/3

  

13/87

10a 2b 1c

Autumn

2/11

1a 1c

13/66

3a 8b 2c

5/52

5b

0/2

  

20/131

4a 13b 3c

2009

Winter

0/46

3/105

3a

3/123

2a 1b

1/75

1c

0/23

0/7

7/379

5a 1b 1c

Spring

0/21

5/70

3a 1b 1c

4/58

2a 1b 1c

0/14

1/4

1a

 

10/167

6a 2b 2c

TOTAL

9/111

2a6b1c

49/378

20a24b 5c

23/352

8a 13b2c

6/184

3a 1b 2c

5/92

2a 2b 1c

1/24

1b

93/1141

35a47b11c

  1. aSporocysts and/or rediae with germinal masses and/or daughter rediae
  2. bRediae with immature cercariae
  3. cRediae with mature cercariae and/or free cercariae