To reduce the global burden of human schistosomiasis, use 'old fashioned'snail control

SH Sokolow, CL Wood, IJ Jones, KD Lafferty… - Trends in …, 2018‏ - cell.com
Control strategies to reduce human schistosomiasis have evolved from 'snail
picking'campaigns, a century ago, to modern wide-scale human treatment campaigns, or …

Schistosomiasis from a snail's perspective: advances in snail immunity

EA Pila, H Li, JR Hambrook, X Wu, PC Hanington - Trends in parasitology, 2017‏ - cell.com
The snail's immune response is an important determinant of schistosome infection success,
acting in concert with host, parasite, and environmental factors. Coordinated by haemocytes …

Comparative immunogenomics of molluscs

JH Schultz, CM Adema - Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Comparative immunology, studying both vertebrates and invertebrates, provided the earliest
descriptions of phagocytosis as a general immune mechanism. However, the large scale of …

Susceptibility of BS90 Biomphalaria glabrata snails to infection by SmLE Schistosoma mansoni segregates as a dominant allele in a cluster of polymorphic genes …

MS Blouin, SR Bollmann, W Le Clec'h… - PLOS Neglected …, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
The trematodes that cause schistosomiasis in humans require aquatic snails as intermediate
hosts. Identifying the genes in snails at which allelic variation controls resistance to infection …

[HTML][HTML] Biomphalaria glabrata immunity: Post-genome advances

MG Castillo, JE Humphries, MM Mourao… - Developmental & …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The freshwater snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, is an important intermediate host in the life
cycle for the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni, the causative agent of schistosomiasis …

Combining a transcriptomic approach and a targeted metabolomics approach for deciphering the molecular bases of compatibility phenotype in the snail …

E Simphor, A Rognon, E Vignal, S Henry, JF Allienne… - Acta Tropica, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Biomphalaria glabrata is a freshwater snail and the obligatory intermediate host of
Schistosoma mansoni parasite, the etiologic agent of intestinal Schistosomiasis, in South …

Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology

A Davison, M Neiman - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Molluscs are among the most ancient, diverse, and important of all animal taxa. Even so, no
individual mollusc species has emerged as a broadly applied model system in biology. We …

An overview of transcriptional responses of schistosome-susceptible (M line) or-resistant (BS-90) Biomphalaria glabrata exposed or not to Schistosoma mansoni …

L Lu, L Bu, SM Zhang, SK Buddenborg… - Frontiers in …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Background We seek to provide a comprehensive overview of transcriptomics responses of
immune-related features of the gastropod Biomphalaria glabrata (Bg) following exposure to …

The genome and transcriptome of the snail Biomphalaria sudanica sl: immune gene diversification and highly polymorphic genomic regions in an important African …

T Pennance, J Calvelo, JA Tennessen, R Burd… - BMC genomics, 2024‏ - Springer
Background Control and elimination of schistosomiasis is an arduous task, with current
strategies proving inadequate to break transmission. Exploration of genetic approaches to …

Molluscicidal and antioxidant activities of silver nanoparticles on the multi-species of snail intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis

KM Zayed, YH Guo, S Lv, Y Zhang… - PLOS Neglected …, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, is the second important parasitic
disease after malaria. The present study aimed to evaluate the molluscicidal effects of silver …