User:Katsuto Abe/sandbox

・Discovery

"Schistosoma. japonicum was discovered in Kofu basin by Dr. Fujiro Katsurada(2). Schistosoma Japonica develops in not only humans but also in the other mammals(1). Hence in one of the epidemic areas in Japan, Kofu basin, farming cattle and the other mammals tend to have edema bloating. Dr. Fujiro Katsurada, a pathologist in Okayama University, focused on this point(2). In July 30th in 1904, Katsurarda took a house cat lived in Kofu basin and vivisected. Then, Katsurada discovered 24 males and 8 females (5 of them disputed) of new parasites. Later, Katsurada named the parasite as Schistosoma japonicum(3).

1. Martins, A. V. (1958). Non-human vertebrate hosts of Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 18(5-6), 931.

2. http://medica.sanyonews.jp/article/1041/

3. http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/2949656/4