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Title(s): Australorbis glabratus: host of Schistosoma mansoni in Puerto Rico
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A Communicable Disease Center study film
Author(s): United States. Public Health Service
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Date: 		1947
Publication
Information: 		[Washington, DC] : The Service, [1947]
Language(s): English
Format: Moving image; 005 min.; Silent; Black and white
Subject(s): Biomphalaria
Rights: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Identifier(s): See catalog record: 8700973A
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8700973A
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Description: Set in Puerto Rico, this film illustrates through aquarium scenes the life cycle of Australorbis glabratus, the Planorbid snail, which is the intermediate host and principal transmitting species of Schistosoma mansoni in tropical America.
Received: (date unknown) as a donation from United States Public Health Service.

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