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Getting into host’s skin: initial immune response to Schistosoma mansoni infection [PDF]

Frontiers in Immunology
Schistosoma mansoni initiates infection through active skin penetration by cercariae, triggering early immune responses that are crucial to disease establishment.
Carolina Melo Orrico-Ferreira, Carolina Melo Orrico-Ferreira, Carolina Melo Orrico-Ferreira, Paulo Emilio Oliveira Cruz, Joao Vitor Borges Rios, Wellington da Silva Rosa, Beatriz de Souza Santos, Raphael Chagas Silva, Carina Silva Pinheiro, Carina Silva Pinheiro, Barbara Castro-Pimentel Figueiredo, Barbara Castro-Pimentel Figueiredo, Barbara Castro-Pimentel Figueiredo, Barbara Castro-Pimentel Figueiredo   +13 more
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Large-scale spatial drivers of avian schistosomes in Northern Michigan inland lakes [PDF]

Parasitology
Avian schistosomes are snail-borne trematode parasites (Trichobilharzia spp.) that can cause a nasty skin rash in humans when their cercariae mistake us for their normal bird hosts.
Jason P. Sckrabulis, Madelyn L. Messner, Jenna Stanny, Ryan B. McWhinnie, Hamzah D. Ansari, Aleena M. Hajek, Alexander Bageris, Thomas R. Raffel   +7 more
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High prevalence of natural infection by the ruminant blood fluke Schistosoma spindale in the intermediate snail host Indoplanorbis exustus in Uttaradit, Northern Thailand [PDF]

Veterinary World
Background and Aim: Freshwater snails belonging to the family Planorbidae serve as the first intermediate hosts of many species of important parasitic flukes of animals and humans.
Chorpaka Phuangsri, Ornampai Japa
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Seasonal dynamics and molecular phylogenetic studies on cercariae in Central Zone of Kashmir valley. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
A total of 12103 snails examined in Central Kashmir for determining the population dynamics of cercariae revealed overall prevalence to be 4.03%. Gymnocephalus (0.13%), furcocercous (0.28%), echinostome (0.34%) and xiphido-cercaria (3.26%) were recorded.
Zahoor Ahmad Wani, Rafiq A Shahardar, Kamal H Bulbul, Idrees M Allaie, Showkat A Shah, Shabir A Rather, Aiman Ashraf, Shahana Tramboo, Asif H Khan   +8 more
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A new species of Rhipidocotyle Diesing, 1858 (Trematoda: Bucephalidae) infecting leerfish, Lichia amia (L.) (Teleostei: Carangidae), and the first complete life-cycle for a marine trematode from Southern Africa [PDF]

Parasitology
We present the first elucidated marine trematode life-cycle for southern Africa, involving intermediate and definitive hosts from the southwestern Indian Ocean, through southern South Africa and to the southeastern Atlantic Ocean in Namibia.
Clarisse Louvard, Russell Qi-Yung Yong, Anja Vermaak, Linda de Klerk, Adri Joubert, Nico J. Smit   +5 more
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Trematode Cercariae from Lymnaea gedrosiana in the Caspian Sea Littoral in Iran: a one health concern

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
IntroductionLymnaea gedrosiana snails are hosts to a variety of trematode cercaria of public and veterinary health importance. In Guilan Province, Iran, a region with a high level of fish and bird farming and wetlands important for migratory birds ...
Aida Vafae Eslahi, Armin Aligolzadeh, Majid Pirestani, Zahra Gharibi, Amir Abdoli, Kareem Hatam-Nahavandi, Behzad Bijani, Milad Badri, Jennifer K. Ketzis   +8 more
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The current state and specifics of taxonomic structure of trematodes of freshwater molluscs in the Ukrainian Polissia

Geo&Bio, 2021
The paper presents results on the analysis of the taxonomic structure of the trematode fauna of the Ukrainian Polissia. It was found that the trematode fauna of freshwater molluscs in the Ukrainian Polissia is represented by 62 species.
Olena Zhytova, Eleonora Korol
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Comparative Study of Transcriptome Profiles of Mouse Livers and Skins Infected by Fork-Tailed or Non-Fork-Tailed Schistosoma japonicum

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
Schistosoma japonicum (S. japonicum) is a worldwide spread pathogen which penetrates host skin and then induces several diseases in infected host, such as fibrosis, formation of granulomas, hepatocirrhosis, and hepatomegaly.
Yan Yang, Jun-Jun He, Shuang Hu, Hua Chang, Xun Xiang, Jian-Fa Yang, Feng-Cai Zou   +6 more
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Schistosoma mansoni and other larval trematodes in Biomphalaria tenagophila (Planorbidae) from Guarulhos, São Paulo State, Brazil Infecção por Schistosoma mansoni e outros trematódeos em Biomphalaria tenagophila (Planorbidae) de Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brasil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2009
A total of 909 Biomphalaria tenagophila were collected from two areas in Guarulhos (Metropolitan area of São Paulo, São Paulo State, Brazil) to assess larval trematode infections.
Josué de Moraes, Marcos Paulo Nascimento da Silva, Fernanda Pires Ohlweiler, Toshie Kawano   +3 more
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Drepanotrema kermatoides (Orbigny, 1835) (Mollusca, Planorbidae), hospedeiro de um paranfistomídeo (Trematoda), no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Drepanotrema kermatoides (Orbigny, 1835) (Mollusca, Planorbidae), host of a paramphistomid (Trematoda), in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1989
São descritas e ilustrradas rédia, cercária imatura e cercária madura e metacercária de um paranfistomídeo, provavelmente do gênero Paramphistomum (Fischoeder, 1901).
Inga Ludmila Veitenheimer-Mendes, Jane Elisabeth Marques de Almeida Caon   +1 more
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