Getting into host’s skin: initial immune response to Schistosoma mansoni infection [PDF]
Frontiers in ImmunologySchistosoma mansoni initiates infection through active skin penetration by cercariae, triggering early immune responses that are crucial to disease establishment.
Carolina Melo Orrico-Ferreira +13 more
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A strategy for emergency treatment of
Parasites & Vectors, 2011 Background Schistosomiasis japonica, caused by contact with Schistosoma japonicum cercaria-infested water when washing, bathing or production, remains a major public-health concern in China.
Li Hong-Jun +8 more
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Large-scale spatial drivers of avian schistosomes in Northern Michigan inland lakes [PDF]
ParasitologyAvian 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 +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 WorldBackground 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 ONEA 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 +8 more
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Journal of Parasitic Diseases, 2019 Two cercariae were recorded from freshwater snails, one each from Digoniostoma pulchella and Indoplanorbis exustus and named Cercaria sp. III Western Ghats n.sp. and Cercaria sp. IV Western Ghats n.sp. respectively. Cercaria sp. III Western Ghats n.sp.
K Arusha, P K Prasadan
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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]
ParasitologyWe 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 +5 more
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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 +8 more
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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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Cercariae (Digenea: Strigeidae, Diplostomidae) in Biomphalaria straminea (Planorbidae) from a rice field in Northeastern Argentina [PDF]
, 2017 The rice fields can provide habitats for many species of aquatic invertebrates, as insects, molluscs, crustaceans; and vertebrates, as fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds, which may act as hosts in the life cycles of digenean parasites. In this context,
Fernández, María Virginia +1 more
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