The trematode has a complex life cycle that involves three host species, he said.
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The trematode has a complex life cycle involving snails, amphibians and predators.
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Large reproductive trematode flatworm surrounded by soldiers from its colony.
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For example, inflammatory trematode lesions can cause endocarditis and neurological disease.
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Back in the water, the trematode larvae next seek out tadpoles and burrow into their hind leg regions.
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This free-swimming stage of a parasite larva, a trematode cercaria, leaves an infected snail to encyst on a fish brain.
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Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, is a chronic liver and intestinal disease caused by trematode flatworms.
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Eleven trematode species infect red foxes.
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Trematode infection can be highly debilitating.
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Fluke: parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
Trematoda is a class within the phylum Platyhelminthes that contains two groups of parasitic flatworms, commonly referred to as "flukes".
Common term for flukes in the Class Trematoda. Comprises of external (monogenetic) and internal (digenetic) parasites of vertebrates. Main species of concern for aquaculture are the eye flukes, see Diplostomum.