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Getting to the bottom of things: Latrine findings help researchers trace movement of people and disease
Schistosomiasis is caused by Schistosoma mansoni, a water-borne parasitic flatworm ... There it reproduces and releases eggs, which are passed through human waste. Ledger discovered a preserved ...
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Immune system proteins involved in severe parasitic disease identified
More information: Madhusoodhanan Suresh Kumar Meena Kumari et al, NLRP3 and AIM2 inflammasomes exacerbate the pathogenic Th17 cell response to eggs of the helminth Schistosoma mansoni, PLOS ...
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Targeting Inflammatory Pathways in Schistosomiasis Treatment
NLRP3 and AIM2 inflammasomes exacerbate the pathogenic Th17 cell response to eggs of the helminth Schistosoma mansoni. Olias P, ed. PLoS Pathog. 2025;21(3):e1012108. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012108 ...
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Schistosomiasis in Children in the Era of Intensified Control
S Knopp acknowledges additional financial support from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (sub-award no. RR374-053/4893196). The research of K. Ingram and J ...
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Prospective European-wide Multicentre Study on a Blood Based Real-time PCR for the Diagnosis of Acute Schistosomiasis
Generalization of the results to all Schistosoma species may be difficult as in the study presented here only eggs of S. mansoni were detected by microscopy. A minimum amount of two millilitre of ...
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Immune system proteins involved in severe parasitic disease identified
While several species of blood fluke worms can cause schistosomiasis, the current study focused on Schistosoma mansoni ... infected with live schistosome eggs. Then, they measured the cytokines ...