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EFFECT OF BIOMPHALARIA ALEXANDRINA SNAILS INFECTED BY BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS KURSTAKI ON THREE SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONS OF SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI

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The effect of infection of Biomphalaria alexandrina snails with Bacillus thurin-giensis kurstaki on various stages of Schistosoma mansoni life cycle was studied for three successive generations. Thus, two groups of snails were exposed to a sublethal concentration of the bacteria (0.08 gm/L water) containing 32000 IU/mg, for one week and to schistosome miracidia. One group was exposed to the miracidia before bacterial infection, while the other group to the miracidia after the bacterial infec-tion. Cercariae produced from each group of snails were used to infect albino mice. The infection of snails and mice with the parasite was repeated for three generations of the parasite. In the first case, data obtained show that the schistosome infection rate of snails was considerably reduced being 60%, 18%, and 66.6% versus 90 % , 92% and 90% in untreated control snails in the three generations of the parasite, re-spectively. Meanwhile, the mean prepatent period was extended being 29.1  4.3 days, 33  1 days and 38.5  2.5 days versus 27 days in the control group. The num-ber of worms recovered from infected mice showed reduction of 52 %, 78.4% and 58.6%, respectively. In the second case, the infection rate of snails was 40%, 16% and 73.7% for the three successive parasite generations and the prepatent period was 32  1 days, 32  2.3 days and 35  2.8 days, respectively. The reduction percentage of the recovered worms was 34.8, 73.6 and 72.9 in the sccessive generations, respec-tively. The present results prove that infecting B.alexandrina snails with a sublethal concentration of B. thuringiensis kurstaki bacteria exhibits clear negative effect on the transmission of S. mansoni in three successive generations. So, it could be rec-ommended to use B. thuringiensis kurstaki as a potential biocontrol agent against S. mansoni.

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10.21608/ajs.2005.15551

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Biomphalaria alexandrina, Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki, Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosome infection, Worm recovery

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Samia

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El-Bardicy

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Medical Malacology Department, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Imbaba, Giza, Egypt .

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Menerva

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Tadros

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Medical Malacology Department, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Imbaba, Giza, Egypt

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Sherif

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Hafez

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Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

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13

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2

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3277

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2005-09-01

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2004-10-10

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2005-09-01

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559

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568

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1110-2675

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2636-3585

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Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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EFFECT OF BIOMPHALARIA ALEXANDRINA SNAILS INFECTED BY BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS KURSTAKI ON THREE SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONS OF SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI

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22 Jan 2023