Reaching the World Health Organization elimination targets for schistosomiasis: the importance of a One Health perspective

AV Díaz, M Walker, JP Webster - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The past three years has seen the launch of a new World Health Organization (WHO)
neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) roadmap, together with revised control and elimination …

Widespread introgression across a phylogeny of 155 Drosophila genomes

A Suvorov, BY Kim, J Wang, EE Armstrong, D Peede… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Genome-scale sequence data have invigorated the study of hybridization and introgression,
particularly in animals. However, outside of a few notable cases, we lack systematic tests for …

[HTML][HTML] Snail-related contributions from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation program including xenomonitoring, focal …

F Allan, SM Ame, YNT Tian-Bi, BV Hofkin… - The American journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) was
created in 2008 to answer questions of importance to program managers working to reduce …

Prevalence and distribution of schistosomiasis in human, livestock, and snail populations in northern Senegal: a One Health epidemiological study of a multi-host …

E Léger, A Borlase, CB Fall, ND Diouf… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease of global medical and
veterinary importance. As efforts to eliminate schistosomiasis as a public health problem and …

Spillover, hybridization, and persistence in schistosome transmission dynamics at the human–animal interface

A Borlase, JW Rudge, E Léger… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Zoonotic spillover and hybridization of parasites are major emerging public and veterinary
health concerns at the interface of infectious disease biology, evolution, and control …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-genome sequencing of Schistosoma mansoni reveals extensive diversity with limited selection despite mass drug administration

DJ Berger, T Crellen, PHL Lamberton, F Allan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Control and elimination of the parasitic disease schistosomiasis relies on mass
administration of praziquantel. Whilst these programmes reduce infection prevalence and …

Chromosome-level genome of Schistosoma haematobium underpins genome-wide explorations of molecular variation

AJ Stroehlein, PK Korhonen, VV Lee, SA Ralph… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Urogenital schistosomiasis is caused by the blood fluke Schistosoma haematobium and is
one of the most neglected tropical diseases worldwide, afflicting> 100 million people. It is …

Comparative mitogenomics of freshwater snails of the genus Bulinus, obligatory vectors of Schistosoma haematobium, causative agent of human urogenital …

SM Zhang, L Bu, L Lu, C Babbitt, CM Adema… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Among the snail genera most responsible for vectoring human-infecting schistosomes,
Bulinus, Biomphalaria, and Oncomelania, the former is in many respects the most important …

Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma bovis first generation hybrids undergo gene expressions changes consistent with species compatibility and heterosis

E Mathieu-Bégné, J Kincaid-Smith… - PLoS Neglected …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
When two species hybridize, the two parental genomes are brought together and some
alleles might interact for the first time. To date, the extent of the transcriptomic changes in first …

Cattle as natural host for Schistosoma haematobium (Bilharz, 1852) Weinland, 1858 x Schistosoma bovis Sonsino, 1876 interactions, with new cercarial emergence …

BAES Savassi, G Mouahid, C Lasica… - Parasitology …, 2020 - Springer
Schistosomiasis remains a parasitic infection which poses serious public health
consequences around the world, particularly on the African continent where cases of …