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J Parasitol
October 2007
College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61802, USA.
Trematodes amplify asexually in their snail intermediate hosts, resulting in the potential release of hundreds to thousands of free-living cercariae per day for the life of the snail. The high number of cercariae released into the environment undoubtedly increases the probability of transmission. Although many individual cercariae successfully infect another host in their life cycle, most fail.
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