Drug discovery for schistosomiasis is still limited to a handful of academic laboratories
worldwide, with only a few novel antischistosomal lead compounds being actively …

The fresh water snail Biomphalaria glabrata is one of the vectors of the trematode pathogen
Schistosoma mansoni, which is one of the agents responsible of human schistosomiasis. In …

The tegument of Schistosoma mansoni plays an integral role in host–parasite interactions,
particularly during the transition from the free-living cercariae to the intra-mammalian …

Over 250 million people suffer from schistosomiasis, a tropical disease caused by parasitic
flatworms known as schistosomes. Humans become infected by free-swimming, water-borne …

Protease inhibitors play crucial roles in parasite development and survival, counteracting the
potentially damaging immune responses of their vertebrate hosts. However, limited …

Schistosomes are parasitic flatworms infecting hundreds of millions of people. These
parasites alternate between asexual reproduction in molluscan hosts and sexual …

Schistosoma mansoni is a parasitic fluke that infects millions of people in the develo**
world. This study presents the first application of population genomics to S. mansoni based …

Background Schistosomes are able to survive for prolonged periods in the blood system,
despite continuous contact with coagulatory factors and mediators of the host immune …

Schistosomes are parasitic flatworms that cause schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical
disease affecting over 200 million people. Schistosomes develop multiple body plans while …

RNA-Seq has proven excellence in providing information about the regulation and transcript
levels of genes. We used this method for profiling genes in the flatworm Schistosoma …