| 1. | The " Dactylogyrus " life cycle is direct, having no intermediate host.
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| 2. | Natural intermediate hosts of this organism are usually small rodents and moles.
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| 3. | The intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction occurs, is usually a snail.
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| 4. | The trematodes infect bird final hosts when birds eat second intermediate hosts.
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| 5. | Lepadogaster species spend their larval stages inside an intermediate host; normally plankton.
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| 6. | Formation of these cysts results in chronic infection of the intermediate host.
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| 7. | The first intermediate host is an " Juga plicifera " stream snail.
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| 8. | In at least 56 species definitive and intermediate hosts are known.
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| 9. | More than 100 species of beetles are known to act as intermediate host.
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| 10. | The intermediate hosts are also the reservoirs of " Spirometra ".
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