Development of a Method of Keeping Snails, Bythinella Nipponica, Aimed at Maintaining Paragonimus Skrjabini Miyazakii Life Cycle in the Laboratory

摘要

Successive subculture of Paragonimus skrjabini miyazakii in a laboratory set forward development of antihelmintics and diagnostic kits against human Paragonimiasis. s. miyazakii. In the present studies, we developed a method of keeping snail hosts, Bythinella nipponica exposed to P.s. miyazakii mira-cidia and succeeded in obtaining a sufficient number of the cercariae from them, and these cercariae completed a P. s. miyazakii life cycle in a laboratory. This will found a way how successive subculture of P. s. miyazakii is made in the laboratory.