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IN a recent communication, McCullough1 stated that although the snail Bulinus (Pyrgophysa) forskalii was known to be a vector of urinary bilharzia in the Gambia and in Mauritius, there was no direct evidence that it acted in a similar capacity in the Gold Coast; moreover, snails of that species collected in the Gold Coast were wholly resistant to experimental attempts to infect them with the miracidia of the causative organism, Schistosoma haematobium.
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WRIGHT, C. Bulinus (Pyrgophysa) forskalii (Ehrenberg) as a Vector of Schistosoma haematobium. Nature 177, 43 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177043a0
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