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Variation in the morphology of the dorsal and dorso-lateral tegument of male Schistosoma haematobium from southern Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

F. J. Kruger  and
C. T. Wolmarans
F. J. Kruger
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Diseases in a Tropical Environment of the South African Medical Research Council, P. O. Box 634, Nelspruit 1200, Republic of South Africa
C. T. Wolmarans
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, Potchefstroom 2520, Republic of South Africa
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Abstract

The teguments of Schistosoma haematobium males from three localities in the Eastern Transvaal and one in the eastern Caprivi were studied by means of scanning electron microscopy. Eastern Transvaal S. haematobium, which occurs sympatrically with S. mattheei, a bovine schistosome also infecting man and which hybridizes with S. haematobium, exhibited certain S. mattheei characteristics. The occurrence of these characteristics were neither related to the prevalence of human S. mattheei infections nor could they be attributed exclusively to phenotypic plasticity. The variation therefore may be geographical and possibly related to the phylogeny of the two species.

Keywords

scanning electron microscopySchistosoma haematobiumSchistosoma mattheeitegumentmorphology
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 323 - 329
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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