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The Mekong Schistosome

edited by John I. Bruce and Santasiri Sornmani. xiv + 282 pages, illustrated. Supplement 2. Malacological Review. P.O. Box 420, Whitmore Lake, Michigan 48189, U.S.A. 1980. $26.00

This monograph is a series of nineteen individual articles by twenty-six authors, all dealing with some aspect of schistosomiasis in Southeast Asia. With one exception the articles report observations that have not been published elsewhere. The exceptional one is a brief account of clinical studies on ninety people at Khong Island, half of whom were passing eggs in the feces and twenty-five of whom had hepatosplenomegaly, which had been reported in 1976. A preface written by Editors J. I. Bruce and S. Sornmani, Associate Editor H. L. Asch, and Assistant Editor K. A. Crawford, gives historical notes on the Mekong schistosome and a summary of differences between Schistosoma japonicum Katsurada, 1904 and Schistosoma mekongi Voge, Bruckner and Bruce, 1978. It also prepares the reader to accept either of two different generic names for the vector snail, Tricula or Lithoglyphopsis, both of which were allowed to be used, as preferred by the various authors.