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IN recent years, detailed studies have been conducted on schistosomiasis and its snail vectors in the Gold Coast. The results of surveys throughout the territory show that although Schistosoma hæmatobium and S. mansoni are both endemic, the former infection, together with its snail hosts, Physopsis africana and Bulinus sp., sensu stricto, is considerably more widespread than the latter and its planorbid vector, Biomphalaria pfeifferi1.
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McCULLOUGH, F. Apparent Resistance of a Snail to Infection in the Gold Coast. Nature 176, 981–982 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176981a0
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