- ago. The
sister group to
Schistosoma is a
genus of elephant-infecting
schistosomes — Bivitellobilharzia. The cattle, sheep, goat and
cashmere goat parasite...
- and
Katayama fever, is a
disease caused by
parasitic flatworms called schistosomes. The
urinary tract or the
intestines may be infected.
Symptoms include...
- Swimmer's itch,
cercarial dermatitis or
schistosome dermatitis is a short-term
allergic contact dermatitis occurring in the skin of
humans that have been...
- in 1851.
After the discoverer, the
infection (generally
including all
schistosome infections) was
called bilharzia or bilharziasis.
Along with
other helminth...
-
other flukes (trematodes) in
which ****es are not
separate (monoecious),
schistosomes are
unique in that
adults are
divided into
males and females, thus, gonochoric...
- with
complex parasitic life cycles.
Immature developmental stages of
schistosomes are
found in
molluscs and
adults occur in vertebrates. The best studied...
-
infect humans can be
divided into groups, the
schistosomes and the non-
schistosomes. The
Schistosomes occur in the
circulatory system of the definitive...
-
according to species.
Cercarial infection in
water environments by non-human
schistosome species causes dermatologic burden to
nearby swimmers,
fishermen and...
-
indicates praziquantel increases the
permeability of the
membranes of
schistosome cells towards calcium ions. The drug
thereby induces contraction of the...
-
giant river prawn, some
insects (including
butterflies and moths), the
schistosome family of flatworms, and some reptiles, e.g.
majority of snakes, lacertid...
