Schistosomiasis, or also generally known as bilharzia or snail fever, is a parasitic disease
that is caused by trematode flatworms of the genus Schistosoma. It is considered by the …

Human infection by Schistosoma mansoni affects more than 100 million people worldwide,
most often in populations of developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The …

Schistosomiasis mansoni remains an important parasitic disease of man, endemic in large
parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South America and the Caribbean. The …

Quantifying branch support using the bootstrap and/or jackknife is generally considered to
be an essential component of rigorous parsimony and maximum likelihood phylogenetic …

A list of Brazilian terrestrial and freshwater gastropod species and genera described from
2006 to 2016 is presented, updating the previous catalogue of SIMONE (2006). Colored …

Objetivo: descrever a distribuição geográfica dos hospedeiros intermediários do
Schistosoma mansoni em cinco estados brasileiros. Métodos: estudo transversal; foram …

Introduction The genus Biomphalaria in Brazil includes 11 species and one subspecies,
three of which are intermediate hosts of Schistosoma mansoni. Due to the recent evolution …

DNA barcoding and morphological characters were used to identify adult snails belonging to
the genus Biomphalaria from 17 municipalities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The DNA …

Improvements in diagnostics for schistosomiasis in both humans and snail hosts are
priorities to be able to reach the World Health Organization (WHO) goal of eliminating the …

A checklist of digenetic trematodes found in molluscs from Brazil is presented based on 127
scientific articles published after a century of studies. To date 23 families, 35 genera and 46 …