The intermediate host of Schistosoma is

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The correct option is A snail
Schistosoma mansoni is the common human blood fluke. It belongs to class Trematoda of Platyhelminthes. Blood fluke is a digenetic parasite, the primary host of which is human being and the intermediate or secondary host is the snail. It causes the disease schistosomiasis, in which the liver and the kidney are damaged.

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