Swimmer's itch control: Timely waterfowl brood relocation significantly reduces an avian schistosome population and human cases on recreational lakes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Swimmer's itch (SI) is a dermatitis in humans caused by cercariae of avian and mammalian schistosomes which emerge from infected snails on a daily basis. Mitigation methods for SI have long been sought with little success.
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Expanding the swimmer’s itch pool of the Benelux: a first record of the neurotropic Trichobilharzia regenti and potential link to human infection [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground Swimmer's itch, an allergic contact dermatitis caused by avian and mammalian blood flukes, is a parasitic infection affecting people worldwide.
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Species-specific qPCR assays allow for high-resolution population assessment of four species avian schistosome that cause swimmer's itch in recreational lakes [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2019 Swimmer's itch is an allergic condition that occurs when the motile and infectious stage of avian schistosomes penetrate the skin of an individual. Flatworm parasites that cause swimmer's itch belong to the family Schistosomatidae. They utilize a variety
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Scratching the Itch: Updated Perspectives on the Schistosomes Responsible for Swimmer’s Itch around the World [PDF]
Pathogens, 2022 Although most studies of digenetic trematodes of the family Schistosomatidae dwell on representatives causing human schistosomiasis, the majority of the 130 identified species of schistosomes infect birds or non-human mammals.
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Swimmer’s itch in Canada: a look at the past and a survey of the present to plan for the future [PDF]
Environmental Health, 2018 Background Cercarial dermatitis, colloquially “swimmer’s itch”, is a rash contracted in natural bodies of water, when people are exposed to skin-penetrating, larval flatworm parasites of the family Schistosomatidae, that emerge from aquatic snails ...
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Outbreak of Swimmer’s Itch in Denmark [PDF]
Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2019 Swimmer’s itch, or cercarial dermatitis, is a waterborne non-communicable skin condition caused by schistosome cercariae released by aquatic snails. Cercarial dermatitis appears worldwide, but may be caused by different trematode species.
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Potamopyrgus antipodarum as a potential defender against swimmer’s itch in European recreational water bodies—experimental study [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Swimmer’s itch is a re-emerging human disease caused by bird schistosome cercariae, which can infect bathing or working people in water bodies. Even if cercariae fail after penetrating the human skin, they can cause dangerous symptoms in atypical mammal ...
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Schistosomes in the southwest United States and their potential for causing cercarial dermatitis or 'swimmer's itch'. [PDF]
J Helminthol, 2009 Cercarial dermatitis or swimmer's itch results when cercariae of schistosomes penetrate human skin and initiate inflammatory responses. The parasites typically die in the skin but in some cases may persist and infect other organs. Cercarial dermatitis is
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Genetic variability among cecariae of the shistomatidae (Trematoda: Digenea) causing swimmer's itch in Europe [PDF]
Parasite, 2001 Ribosomal DNA sequences of the internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) were obtained from schistosome cercariae responsible for swimmer's itch in Europe. Two types of ITS 1 (1100 and 1400), which differ by the number of repeated patterns were found among ...
Picard D., Jousson O.
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Correction: Swimmer’s itch control: Timely waterfowl brood relocation significantly reduces an avian schistosome population and human cases on recreational lakes [PDF]
PLoS ONE[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288948.].
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