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metacercariae

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Metacercaria (plural, metacercariae)
The encysted stage of a fluke larva that produces infection in human beings.
Mentioned in: Fluke Infections

metacercaria [met″ah-ser-kar´e-ah] (pl. metacerca´riae)
The encysted resting or maturing stage of a trematode parasite in the tissues of an intermediate host.


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The second intermediate hosts, in which metacercariae form, are the same molluscs or frog tadpoles (Key .
The use of frequency distribution in an attempt to detect host mortality induced by infections of diplostomatid metacercariae.
Data from parasitologic examination of fish in the same households (6) were used to assign codes to households: code 1 (positive) if any fish had FZT metacercariae and code 0 if all fish examined were negative.
 
 
 
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