Shivang joins the TWiP triumvirate to solve the case of the New Yorker With Rash and Pins and Needles, and reveal how agrochemicals increase risk of human schistosomiasis by causing high snail density.
The TWiP triumvirate solves the case of the Missionary in Kenya, and review the finding of a soldier caste in flatworms that parasitize snails.
TWiP 27: Trematodes
- June 22, 2011
- Tagged as: clonorchis, fasciola, fasciolopsis, fluke, heterophyes, metagonimus, paragonimus, parasite, parasitism, snail, trematode
Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of trematodes, or flukes, which have a snail as a reservoir host.