Table 8. Characteristics and results of experimental infection assays of Lymnaea schirazensis from different geographical origins with miracidia from experimentally-reared strains of Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica also from different geographical origins.
| Experiment No. | Snail strain origin | Infected snail No. | Size of snails infected (height in mm) | Fasciola species used in infection assay | Fasciola strain origin | Miracidial dose (No.) | No. snails surviving at 30 dpi* (%) | Postinfection survival** (days) | Infection results |
| 1 | El Kazza, Egypt | 30 | 3.5−5.0 | F. hepatica | Pachago, Peru | 1 | 26 (86.67%) | 9−152 (81.4) | no snail infected |
| 2 | Valencia Albufera, Spain | 65 | 3.5−6.5 | F. hepatica | Hosh Essa, Egypt | 1 | 6 (9.23%) | 6−70 (17.2) | no snail infected |
| 3 | Valencia Albufera, Spain | 30 | 3.5−6.0 | F. gigantica | Gizza, Egypt | 1 | 0 (0%) | 9−29 (13.0) | no snail infected |
| 4 | Valencia Albufera, Spain | 117 | 5.0−7.5 | F. gigantica | Gizza, Egypt | 1 | 0 (0%) | 9 (9.0) | no snail infected |
| 5 | Valencia Albufera, Spain | 10 | 4.5−6.0 | F. hepatica | Bialowieza, Poland | 1 | 6 (60%) | 23−91 (60.7) | 2 snails showing few rediae*** at 23 dpi* |
| 6 | Valencia Albufera, Spain | 56 | 4.0−6.5 | F. hepatica | Bialowieza, Poland | 1 | 54 (96.4%) | 30−111 (65.8) | no snail infected |
| 7 | Valencia Albufera, Spain | 10 | 4.6−5.4 | F. hepatica | Cajamarca, Peru | 3 | 0 (0%) | 17−30 (25.1) | no snail infected |
| 8 | Tiba Delengate, Egypt | 20 | 3.6−6.1 | F. gigantica | Quy Nhon, Vietnam | 1 | 14 (70.0%) | 14−78 (37.7) | no snail infected |
*dpi = days postinfection; ** = range include minimum and maximum extremes, with mean in parentheses; *** = rediae in these two snail specimens never produced cercarial shedding.