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IN the course of research on the schistosomes of birds in the Belgian Congo and in the Ruanda-Urundi, I have discovered schistosomes in the nasal cavities of birds1. Nasal schistosomiasis is known to affect cattle in India, but it does not seem to have been mentioned in birds.
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FAIN, A. Nasal Trichobilharziasis : a New Avian Schistosomiasis. Nature 177, 389 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177389a0
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