Abstract
A more thorough understanding of the means of entry, and the pattern and mechanism of migration of schistosomes through the skin of definitive hosts is essential to a comprehensive knowledge of host-schistosome relations. Although entry has been described in the skin of the various animals listed in Table I, the need for further study of this first step in the infection is accentuated by the disagreement over the point of entry of cercariae which has existed among workers on the schistosomes and which remains largely unresolved. Therefore, a comparative study was undertaken of the frequency of cercarial entry into unshaved skin of a variety of hosts, supplemented by observation of the means of entry and the pattern of peripheral migration. This paper reports the results of direct observation of entry
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