Changes in the Prevalence of Natural Paramphistomum Cercariae Infection in Indoplanorbis and Lymnaea Intermediate Hosts Influenced by Meteorological Factors

Table 3

Seasonwise prevalence of Paramphistomum spp. cercariae infection in Indoplanorbis and Lymnaea intermediate snail hosts in various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Seasons	Snail hosts		Total observed	Infected with Paramphistomum spp.	Rate of infection (%)
	Lymnaea spp.	Indoplanorbis spp.
Winter: Nov 2018–Feb 2019	226	106	332	17	5.1%
Spring: Mar 2019–Apr 2019	192	133	325	23	7.07%
Summer: May 2019–Aug 2019	796	640	1463	170	11.83%
Autumn: Oct 2018 & Sep 2019	326	287	613	69	11.25%

Significant (), and highly significant ().