In the next century, global warming, due to changes in climatic factors, is expected to have
an enormous influence on the interactions between pathogens and their hosts. Over the …

Schistosomiasis has plagued the Egyptian population since the antiquity. The disease is still
a public health problem in Egypt, despite the tendency of being overlooked. In the first part of …

The in vitro effect of four isolates of the nematophagous fungi Duddingtonia flagrans (AC
001), Monacrosporium sinense (SF 53), and Pochonia chlamydosporia (VC 1 and VC 4) on …

Background Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by Schistosoma and
affects over 240 million people worldwide. One of the most prominent causative agents is …

Schistosomiasis is a snail-borne trematode infection of humans, domestic and wild animals
in different parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South America and the Carribbean …

Abstract The African species of Biomphalaria appeared as a result of the relatively recent
west-to-east trans-Atlantic dispersal of the Biomphalaria glabrata-like taxon. In Egypt …

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that is highly prevalent, especially in developing
countries. Biomphalaria tenagophila is an important invertebrate host of Schistosoma …

Aiming to further characterize the haemocyte subsets in Biomphalaria snails, we have
performed a detailed flow cytometric analysis of whole haemolymph cellular components …

Schistosomiasis remains a major parasitic disease, endemic in large parts of South America.
Five neotropical species of Biomphalaria have been found to act as intermediate hosts of …

Lectins/carbohydrate binding can be involved in the Schistosoma mansoni recognition and
activation of the Biomphalaria hemocytes. Therefore, expression of lectin ligands on …