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Animal Kingdom

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The intermediate host of Schistosoma is

  • Snail

  • mosquito

  • housefly

  • sheep

Solution

A.

Snail

Schistosoma mansoni is the common human blood fluke. It belongs to class- Trematoda of Platylhelminthes. Blood fluke is digentic, primary host is man and secondary host id snail.


Sheep is the primary host of Fasciola hepatics (sheep liver fluke), causing 'liver rot'. Its secondary host is also the snail.


Mosquito and housefly are not found to be the intermediate host of any animal.

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