A survey of Planorbidae in the state of São Paulo: the 8th Administrative Region (the greater São Jose do Rio Preto area)

Vaz, J.F.; Elmor, M.R.; Gonçalves, L.M.

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo 34(6): 527-534

1992


ISSN/ISBN: 0036-4665
PMID: 1342121
Document Number: 404361
In order to know the distributional patterns of Basommatophoran snails in the state of São Paulo (Brazil), 85 "counties" in the area of S. José do Rio Preto were worked out during seven months (1982). Snails from 286 breeding places were collected and identified. Biomphalaria straminea, an intermediate host of S. mansoni, was found in four little ponds, in the neighbourhood of Altair and S. José do Rio Preto. It was concluded that schistosomiasis has little chance to spread out in the studied area.

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