Swimmer's itch control: Timely waterfowl brood relocation significantly reduces an avian schistosome population and human cases on recreational lakes

CL Blankespoor, HD Blankespoor, RJ DeJong - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Large-scale spatial drivers of avian schistosomes in Northern Michigan inland lakes

JP Sckrabulis, ML Messner, J Stanny, RB McWhinnie… - Parasitology, 2024 - cambridge.org
Avian schistosomes are snail-borne trematode parasites (Trichobilharzia spp.) that can
cause a nasty skin rash in humans when their cercariae mistake us for their normal bird …

Invasion potential of the aquarium pet snail Planorbella trivolvis in India: impact of certain abiotic and biotic factors

P Paul, NK Gupta, D Singh, S Banerjee… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Planorbella trivolvis (ramshorn snail) is one of India's most extensively sold exotic aquarium
pet snails. The unintentional or deliberate release of P. trivolvis may result in the …

Swimmer's itch control: timely waterfowl brood relocation significantly reduces an avian schistosome population and human cases on recreational lakes

CL Blankespoor, HD Blankespoor, RJ DeJong - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
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 …

Applying a community-based monitoring framework to enteric bacteria monitoring and microbial source tracking

KL Froelich - 2024 - era.library.ualberta.ca
Using microbial source tracking (MST) to find possible causes of fecal contamination in
freshwater systems via quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a robust field with …