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Brain‐Encysting Trematodes Increase the Frequency but Reduce the Repeatability of Surfacing Behaviour in Mottled Triplefin

open access: yesEthology, Volume 131, Issue 11, Page 239-249, November 2025.
In Otago Harbour, New Zealand, the trophically transmitted trematode Cardiocephaloides ovicorpus infects the brain of a population of mottled triplefin (Forsterygion capito) with high prevalence and intensity. Behavioural tests revealed that the infection intensity was significantly positively correlated with surfacing frequency, and repeatability of ...
Sila Viriyautsahakul   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Climate Change on Emergence and Evolution of Zoonotic Diseases in Asia

open access: yesZoonoses and Public Health, Volume 72, Issue 7, Page 587-611, November 2025.
ABSTRACT As the climate of Asia changes under the influence of global warming, the incidence and spatial distribution of known zoonoses will evolve, and new zoonoses are expected to emerge as a result of greater exposure to organisms which currently occur only in wildlife.
Roger S. Morris, Masako Wada
wiley   +1 more source

Schistosomiasis: Still a Cause of Significant Morbidity and Mortality

open access: yesResearch and Reports in Tropical Medicine, 2020
Mohamud A Verjee Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, QatarCorrespondence: Mohamud A VerjeeUniversity Institution Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha P O Box ...
Verjee MA
doaj  

Great minds map alike: Citizen and expert distribution models of schistosome snail hosts in rural west Uganda

open access: yesEcological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 4, October–December 2025.
Citizen scientists and an expert jointly monitor Biomphalaria snails (the intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni) in rural areas of southwest Uganda, generating over 4500 georeferenced records. By comparing expert‐ and citizen‐based distribution models under perfect and imperfect detection, we demonstrate that site type and NDVI consistently ...
Noelia Valderrama‐Bhraunxs   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The redial and cercarial production of a Digenean in the snail host is lower when no cercarial shedding occurs

open access: yesParasite, 2009
Single- and double-miracidium exposures of Galba truncatula with Fasciola hepatica (two groups) or with Paramphistomum daubneyi (two groups) were carried out under laboratory conditions to compare parasite production in cercaria-shedding snails (CS ...
Dreyfuss G., Vignoles P., Rondelaud D.
doaj   +1 more source

Type of Cercaria in Freshwater Snails at Tunggu Pampang Reservoir, Makassar City, Indonesia

open access: yesИнфекция и иммунитет, 2019
The Tunggu Pampang Reservoir is one of the reservoirs located in the city of Makassar. The functions of the reservoir area was tourist attractions and fish farming locations so that the local community uses them for swimming, fishing, selling, and ...
Arif Rahman Jabal   +9 more
doaj  

The lethal effect of soap on Schistosoma mansoni cercariae in water.

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BackgroundSchistosomiasis is a parasitic disease which is spread through skin contact with water containing Schistosoma cercariae. Drug treatment has been the main control method, but it does not prevent reinfection.
Jiaodi Zhang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Freshwater snails and Schistosomiasis mansoni in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: IV - Sul Fluminense Mesoregion

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2004
In this paper, the forth of a series dealing with the survey of freshwater gastropods of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the results of collections carried out in the Sul Fluminense Mesoregion from 2000 to 2002 are presented and revealed the occurrence of ...
Silvana C Thiengo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differences in Brazilian strains of Schistosoma mansoni evaluated by means of morphometric analysis of cercariae of both sexes

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2000
Morphometrics of Brazilian strains (BH, SJ and CMO) of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae were obtained with a computerized image analyzer (IMAGE PRO PLUS, MEDIA CYBERNETICS), considering the following characters: body area, tail, furcae, oral and ventral ...
José Roberto Machado-Silva   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Freshwater snails and Schistosomiasis mansoni in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: III - Baixadas Mesoregion

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2002
In this paper, the third of a series dealing with the survey of freshwater gastropods of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the results of collections carried out in the Mesoregion Baixadas from 2000 to 2002 are presented.
Silvana C Thiengo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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