The miracidium is the second stage in the life cycle of trematodes. When trematode eggs are laid and come into contact with fresh water, they hatch and...

parasite will develop from the miracidium. They also have an anterior spin which helps them drill into the snail. The miracidium develops into the sporocyst...

hatched within a host, typically a mollusc. The hatchling is called a miracidium, a free-swimming, ciliated larva. Miracidia will then grow and develop...

short-lived, non-feeding, free-living stage known as the miracidium emerges. The miracidium uses cilia to follow chemical and physical cues thought to...

Platyhelminthes Turbellaria: Müller's larva, Götte's larva; Trematoda: miracidium, sporocyst, redia, cercaria; Monogenea: oncomiracidium; Cestoda: cysticercus...

dissolved by the snail's digestive enzymes, so the miracidium hatches from the egg. The ciliated miracidium can move about, penetrating the intestine, and...

co-infection with S. mansoni (having a lateral-spined eggs) is common. The miracidium measures about 136 μm long and 55 μm wide. The body is covered by anucleate...

eggs are larger than 160 μm in diameter, they also fail to hatch. The miracidium (from the Greek word μειράκιον, meirakion, meaning youth) is pear-shaped...

egg landing in fresh water hatches and releases a ciliated miracidium. A successful miracidium swims about until it finds an intermediate host, usually...

the digenean eggs and asexual reproduction in the first larval stage (miracidium) is widely reported, the developmental biology of the asexual stages remains...

PMID 1185431. Southgate, V. R. (2009). "Observations on the epidermis of the miracidium and on the formation of the tegument of the sporocyst of Fasciola hepatica"...

of F. gigantica is: Eggs (transported with feces) → egg hatch → miracidium → miracidium infect snail intermediate host → (parthenogenesis in 24 hours)...

breeding sites, which might reduce the amount of mosquito-borne disease. Miracidium Regenerative medicine Schistosoma Dentzien-Dias, PC; Poinar, G Jr; de...

other mammals) and enter freshwaters such as streams, rivers, and lakes. Miracidium hatch from the egg and begin to actively search for a suitable intermediate...

hepatica Fasciola pass through five phases in their life cycle: egg, miracidium, cercaria, metacercaria, and adult fluke. The eggs are passed in the feces...

the feces, and becomes infected by the larval parasites. The larvae (or miracidium) drill through the wall of the gut and settle in its digestive tract,...

degenerate or simplified metazoa. Their ciliated larvae are similar to the miracidium of trematodes, and their internal multiplication is similar to what happens...

and one definitive host. The parasite's eggs hatch in the water and the miracidium invades the foot of a snail. The cercaria leaves the snail and encysts...

mollusks. The water snail is the first intermediate host, in which a miracidium (an embryonated egg discharged in stool) goes through its developmental...

type of parasitic flatworm commonly found on fish. It is similar to the miracidium of Trematoda, but has sclerotised (hardened) hooklets not found in the...

occur in a snail or mollusc. The first snail host is penetrated by a miracidium, producing a sporocyst. Many sporocysts are produced and mother rediae...

first intermediate host, a snail, and penetrate its soft tissues. Each miracidium goes through several developmental stages inside the snail: firstly into...

days of incubation for the egg to hatch into a moving, ciliated miracidium. Miracidium is the stage in which the larvae are free swimming and are able...

they eat the eggs directly from the gulls' feces. The eggs hatch into a miracidium stage, which develops into multiple sporocysts. Rather than further developing...

adult Alaria and excreted from the final host's faeces and hatched into miracidium that infect the snail host, in which the eggs then give rise to the asexual...

host, which then becomes infected. In the first intermediate host, the miracidium undergoes asexual reproduction for several weeks, which includes sporocyst...

Schistosoma haematobium, enter and develop inside the Biomphlaria, to form miracidium, which can penetrate through skin to enter the human body. Marisa cornuarietis...

through laboratory observation, that upon contact with freshwater, the miracidium is released from the egg. List of things named after Barack Obama List...

parasitically castrate California horn snails. A trematode infects a snail with a miracidium larva that either swims to infect the snail, or hatches after the snail...

host's eyes. Miracidium is induced to hatch when ripe eggs are released from the worm into water. Upon contact with a snail, the miracidium perforates the...