This review summarizes the research progress made over the past decade in the field of gastropod immunity resulting from investigations of the interaction between the snail …
Abstract Background The Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis is an ecologically and economically relevant edible marine bivalve, highly invasive and resilient to biotic and …
Biomphalaria snails are instrumental in transmission of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni. With the World Health Organization's goal to eliminate schistosomiasis as a global …
W Evan Secor - Pathogens and Global Health, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Mass drug administration with praziquantel is the mainstay of programs for the control of schistosomiasis morbidity. However, there is a growing recognition that treatment alone will …
L Bu, L Lu, MR Laidemitt, SM Zhang… - PLoS neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Biomphalaria pfeifferi is the world's most widely distributed and commonly implicated vector snail species for the causative agent of human intestinal schistosomiasis …
EA Pila, M Tarrabain, AL Kabore… - PLoS Pathogens, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Schistosomiasis, a devastating disease caused by parasitic flatworms of the genus Schistosoma, affects over 260 million people worldwide especially in tropical and sub …
NM Dheilly, D Duval, G Mouahid, R Emans… - Developmental & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Technical limitations have hindered comprehensive studies of highly variable immune response molecules that are thought to have evolved due to pathogen-mediated selection …
This review reexamines the results obtained in recent decades regarding the compatibility polymorphism between the snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, and the pathogen, Schistosoma …
Immunologists, perhaps understandably, most often concentrate on the human immune system, an anthropocentric focus that has resulted in a dearth of information about the …