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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  

Moose Survival and Habitat‐Associated Risk of Endoparasites

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.
We observed high rates of adult and calf moose survival in New York State, with mortality primarily due to disease associated with giant liver fluke infections. Calf mortality risk increased with increasing use of wetlands, where they can acquire giant liver fluke infections, and decreased with higher amounts of nutritional energy available.
Jennifer A. Grauer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Schistosoma mansoni cercariae experience influx of macromolecules during skin penetration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We have observed that when cercariae penetrate the skin of mice, there is influx into their tissues of Lucifer Yellow and certain labelled molecules of up to 20 kDa molecular weight.
Coelho, P.M.Z.   +5 more
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Zoonotic Schistosomiasis: The Crossroads Between Animal and Human Schistosomiasis in Africa: Narrative Review

open access: yesHealth Science Reports, Volume 8, Issue 11, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Background The fight against schistosomiasis (urogenital and intestinal) has prolonged more than expected with more areas that were previously known to have less or no incidence of infection now recording alarming incidence rate. Researchers and stakeholders are now concerned about what is probably sustaining the possible infection, and one of
Fatima Amponsah Fordjour   +1 more
wiley   +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 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

In the absence of CD154, administration of interleukin-12 restores Th1 responses but not protective immunity to Schistosoma mansoni [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The cytokine interplay during the development of protective immunity to the radiation-attenuated (RA) schistosome vaccine has been extensively characterized over recent years, yet the role of costimulatory molecules in the development of cell-mediated ...
Hamblin, Paul A   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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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