| Schistosoma indicum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Subclass: | Digenea |
| Order: | Stringeiformes |
| Family: | Schistosomatidae |
| Genus: | Schistosoma |
| Species: | S. indicum |
| Binomial name | |
| Schistosoma indicum Montgomery, 1906 |
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Schistosoma spindale is a species of digenetic trematode in the family Schistosomatidae.
The parasite is widespread in India and other Asian countries.
The most important the first intermediate host is a freshwater snail Indoplanorbis exustus[1] that may be the sole natural intermediate host for Schistosoma nasale (and other two Schistosoma species) on the Indian sub-continent.[1] Other snail has been impolicated in transmission of Schistosoma indicum as its the first intermediate host and it include Lymnaea luteola.[1]
Schistosoma indicum was discovered by the British scientist R. E. Montgomery, in 1906, from a horse from Mukteswar, Uttar Pradesh, India. This blood-fluke causes hepato-intestinal schistosomiasis in many domestic animals (sheep, goat, water buffalo, cattle, camel, horse, donkey, dog, but not pigs). It was responsible for an outbreak of pulmonary schistosomiasis, in 1981, in sheep in Rajasthan, leading considerable mortality.
A variant of Schistosoma indicum, rather than Schistosoma haematobium, was suggested to be responsible for human schistosomiasis in Gimvi village, Ratnagiri district, India. Terminal-spined Schistosoma indicum-like eggs have been detected in human stools, too. Dr M. C. Agrawal demonstrated cross-immunity against Schistosoma incognitum by immunising the host against Schistosoma indicum.
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