This comprehensive article reviews and analyses all the known information on the blood flukes of cold-blooded vertebrates and deals with their classification, evolution, taxonomy, life-cycles, habitats in the final host, host specificity, distribution, physiology and immunology, pathology, and...

Knowledge of fascioliasis (Fasciola gigantica) and schistosomiasis (Schistosoma bovis) of livestock in the Nile Valley area of Egypt and Sudan is reviewed with respect to (i) geographical distribution and epidemiology, (ii) geographical distribution and ecology of the snail hosts, (iii) importance...

The situation of Asian schistosomiasis of animals and humans is compiled and updated. The species belonging to the genera Schistosoma (S. spindale, S. nasale, S. indicum, S. incognitum, S. japonicum and S. mekongi), Orientobilharzia (O. turkestanicum, O. bomfordi, O. dattai, and O. harinasutai) and ...

Juvenile specimens of an oligacanthorhynchid acanthocephalan were found encysted beneath the skin of Tonatia silvicola in Costa Rica. A list of bat-acanthocephalan associations is presented. Apart from Moniliformis, all acanthocephalans recorded from bats are oligacanthorhynchids. It is concluded...

The taxonomy of Stephanofilaria is discussed and morphological details of S. dedoesi, S. kaeli, S. assamensis, S. zaheeri, S. okinawaensis, S. dinniki and S. stilesi are listed in a table. It is considered that S. assamensis, S. kaeli and S. okinawaensis cannot be separated morphologically from S....