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Schistosomiasis

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Very elongate, unisexual and dimorphic digenean, female long and slender, somewhat longer than male, the latter usually carries the female in a gynaecophoric canal;- a gutter-like groove formed by ventral flexing of the lateral edges of the flat male body. Suckers poorly developed and closely proximated. Oesophagus short, without a pharynx, caeca long and unite posteriorly to form a common caecum which extends up to posterior extremity. Genital pore placed behind ventral sucker, male with four to numerous testes placed anteriorly, female with a compact to elongate or tubular ovary, situated anterior to caecal union. Vitelline glands well developed and post-ovarian. Uterus with one to many thin-shelled and embryonated eggs which usually bear a short terminal or lateral spine.

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