The human blood fluke.

Date:
1952
  • Film

About this work

Description

Discusses the epidemiology of schistosomiasis and describes the life-cycle of schistosoma mansoni, its laboratory culture and its chemotherapy in experimentally infected mice. The laboratory culture of the water snail vector Australorbis glabratus is also shown, together with the methods for extracting miracidia from infected faeces, infecting snails, and infecting laboratory mice with cercariae obtained from the snails. Animated diagrams are used to show how the schistosome eggs pass into the faeces; the stages of development within the snail vector; the cercariae penetrating the skin of the host, and their subsequent passage to the liver and circulatory system.

Publication/Creation

UK : Wellcome Foundation Film Unit, 1952.

Physical description

6 film reels (33 min. each) : sound, color
3 negative film reels (33 min. each) : sound, color

Creator/production credits

Wellcome Foundation Film Unit with Dr. Owen Standen and the Department of Helminthology, Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine, London -- producer and director, Florence Anthony; photographer, Douglas Fisher.

Copyright note

Wellcome Trust.

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