1.Paddy field dermatitis among inhabitants near the mouth of the Kiso River. (2). Survey on the snail intemediate hosts for avian schistosome cercariae.
Toyomi SHIBATA ; Hisao FUKUSHIMA ; Miwako TAKAHASHI ; Haruko KATO ; Yasuo YAMADA ; Tomoko SUMI ; Hisashi YASUI ; Toshihiro OSUKA ; Eizi NAKAYAMA ; Hisako TANAKA ; Akemi ITO ; Shoichi SHIMOMURA ; Noriji SUZUKI
Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 1987;36(4):923-927
Surveys on the snail intermediate hosts were undertaken in the paddy fields in Yatomi-cho, Aichi Prefecture, once a year over a 5-year period (1983-1987).
And the cercariae of two different avian schistosomes were detected from snails in paddy fields.
The cercariae from Polyplis haemisphaerula were identified as species beloning to the genus Gigantobilharzia and the cercariae from austropeplea ollula as species belonging to the genus Trichobilharzia.
It was concluded that the paddy field dermatitis occurring in Yatomi-cho was proved to be caused by the invasion of these cercariae.