Metacercariae
"Metacercariae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Encysted cercaria which house the intermediate stages of trematode parasites in tissues of an intermediate host.
| Descriptor ID |
D058488
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B05.500.500.150.500 G07.345.500.550.500.500.150.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Metacercariae" by people in Profiles.
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Calhoun DM, Curtis J, Hassan C, Johnson PTJ. Putting infection on the map: Using heatmaps to characterise within- and between-host distributions of trematode metacercariae. J Helminthol. 2023 Nov 10; 97:e84.
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Orlofske SA, Flaxman SM, Joseph MB, Fenton A, Melbourne BA, Johnson PTJ. Experimental investigation of alternative transmission functions: Quantitative evidence for the importance of nonlinear transmission dynamics in host-parasite systems. J Anim Ecol. 2018 05; 87(3):703-715.