Physiological-biochemical bases of differential identification of metacercaria Opisthorchis felineus and Rhipidocotyle campanula

The results of studying of combined infection of cyprinid fish by metacercaria of Opisthorchis felineus and Rhipidocotyle campanula are given. The method of digestion in artificial gastric juice can be recommended for use at differential diag- nostics of metacercaria O. felineus and R. campanula.

Keywords: metacercaria, Opisthorchis felineus, Rhipidocotyle campanula, dif- ferential diagnostics. 

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