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Table 2 Numbers of Galba truncatula harbouring Fasciola hepatica 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

3/9

2b 1c

1/6

1b

2/3

2c

  

6/19

3b 3c

Autumn

 

0/3

    

0/3

2008

Winter

1/13

1a

0/33

1/67

1a

0/75

3/41

1b 2c

0/5

5/234

2a 1b 2c

Spring

2/11

2c

3/39

1a 2b

1/23

1b

2/12

2c

1/24

1c

0/12

9/121

1a 3b 5c

Summer

0/8

7/53

6a 1b

5/23

4a 1b

0/3

  

12/87

10a 2b

Autumn

1/11

1c

3/66

1b 2c

4/52

3b 1c

0/2

  

8/131

4b 4c

2009

Winter

0/43

2/105

1b 1c

2/123

1a 1c

2/75

1b 1c

2/23

1a 1c

0/7

8/379

2a 2b 4c

Spring

0/21

0/70

1/58

1c

1/14

1b

0/4

 

2/167

1b 1c

Total

4/111

1a3c

18/378

7a 7b 4c

15/352

6a 6b 3c

7/184

2b 5c

6/92

1a 1b 4c

0/24

50/1141

15a16b 19c

  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