Table 3 Number of infections recorded in 5 different snail species collected from three irrigation canals
| Â | Site | Snail species | Â | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cercariae type | Site 1 | Site 2 | Site 3 | Biomphalaria pfeifferi | Bulinus truncatus | Bulinus forskalii | Melanoides tuberculata | Cleopatra bulimoides | Total |
Xiphidiocercariae (4 types) | 452 (82.8) | 281 (90.6) | 152 (24.2) | 176 (80.7) | 657 (95.9) | 0 | 51 (9.9) | 1 (1.6) | 885 (59.6) |
Parapleurolophocercous | 24 (4.4) | 2 (0.6) | 410 (65.2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 436 (84.7) | 0 | 436 (29.4) |
Vivax (LPM) | 60 (11.0) | 2 (0.6) | 1 (0.2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 (98.4) | 63 (4.2) |
Avian schistosome (BAD) | 0 | 0 | 26 (4.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 (5.0) | 0 | 26 (1.8) |
S. mansoni | 1 (0.2) | 14 (4.5) | 9 (1.4) | 24 (11.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 (1.6) |
Amphistome cercariae | 6 (1.1) | 7 (2.3) | 4 (0.6) | 0 | 17 (2.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 (1.1) |
Strigea (LPD) | 0 | 0 | 8 (1.3) | 7 (3.2) | 1 (0.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 (0.5) |
Echinostome | 0 | 1 (0.3) | 5 (0.8) | 4 (1.8) | 2 (0.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 (0.4) |
Type 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 (0.6) | 1 (0.5) | 3 (0.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (0.3) |
Type 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 (0.6) | 1 (0.5) | 2 (0.3) | 1 (33.3) | 0 | 0 | 4 (0.3) |
S. haematobium | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.3) | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.1) |
Type 1 | 0 | 2 (0.6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (66.7) | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.1) |
Type 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.3) | 2 (0.9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.1) |
Type 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.3) | 2 (0.9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.1) |
Type 6 | 2 (0.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.4) | 0 | 2 (0.1) |
LA | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.2) | 0 | 1 (0.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.1) |
Type 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.1) |
Total snails infected | 546 | 310 | 629 | 218 | 685 | 3 | 515 | 64 | 885 (59.6) |
Total types | 7 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 17 |