The first intermediate host has now been determined, and proves to be a fresh-water snail, Pirenella conica, which was found to be infected with the cercariae of the parasite, and by eating this ...

Free-swimming aquatic Cercariae that swim in water can penetrate human skin and enter the bloodstream to infiltrate the liver. Mature worms that enter the intestines (S. mansoni, S. japonicum ...

With the official end of the bathing season in Berlin on Sunday, the State Office for Health and Social Affairs (Lageso) will ...

BMJ Open 2018, 8(9):e023071. 2018 Kalinda C, Chimbari MJ, Grant WE, Wang H-H, Odhiambo JN, Mukaratirwa S: Simulation of population dynamics of Bulinus globosus: Effects of environmental temperature on ...

cercariae as evolutionary innovations, immunobiology of mollusc-helminth associations, applications of genomics/omics to such associations, nematode parasites of molluscs, emerging mollusc-dependent ...

While the rash rarely leads to complications, it is the drinking of the cercariae-infested water which can have serious consequences, warns Dr Suárez. But, he explains, the migrants crossing the ...

The infectious form of the parasite, known as cercariae, emerges from the snail into the water. You can become infected when your skin comes in contact with contaminated freshwater. Communities ...

Department of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako IHPE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, Univ. Perpignan Via ...