[The studies of the invasion of Alaria alata (Goeze,1782) in the Province of Kuyavia and Pomerania]. / Badania nad inwazja Alaria alata (Goeze, 1782) w województwie kujawsko-pomorskim.

The studies were conducted between 1999 and 2001 in two hunting regions. Larval alariosis was revealed in the boars only in one of the studied regions. In this region, the results of the parasitological studies, conducted towards A. alata in the direct host (domestic dogs) and indirect hosts (snails: Planorbis planorbis and Anisus vortex as well as frogs: Rana temporaria and Rana terrestris) were also positive. The lack of the host snails A. alata in the other region might have resulted from no presence of the parasite in the boar.

[The case of dermatitis in the human as a result of the influence of the cercaria of the bird schistosome]. / Przypadek dermatitis u czlowieka wywolany przez cerkarie ptasich schistosom.

There are numerous cases of dermatitis described world-wide and resulting from the influence of the furcocercaria of the bird schistosome. The host snail species of the schistosome, producing thousands of furcocercaria are common in our country. But, because of too general symptoms of dermatitis resulting from the influence of the schistosome of the larvae, there are many unrecognisable cases. The reaction described was typical of a twenty-seven-year-old man collecting snails in the Piechota Bay in Gostynin (the Province of Kuyavia and Pomerania). In that reservoir, individuals of Lymnaea stagnalis were found, which were infected with sporocysts and furcocercaria of Trichobilharzia ocellata. In the laboratory conditions, a high expulsion of cercaria was observed, which amounted to over 8000 larvae per snail.