- ago. The
sister group to
Schistosoma is a
genus of elephant-infecting
schistosomes — Bivitellobilharzia. The cattle, sheep, goat and
cashmere goat parasite...
- and
Katayama fever, is a
disease caused by
parasitic flatworms called schistosomes. The
urinary tract or the
intestines may be infected.
Symptoms include...
-
infect humans can be
divided into groups, the
schistosomes and the non-
schistosomes. The
Schistosomes occur in the
circulatory system of the definitive...
-
occurring in the skin of
humans that have been
infected by water-borne
schistosomes, a type of flatworm. It is
common in freshwater,
brackish and marine...
- cycle. The
heterogametic ****
chromosomes in
females of nine
species of
schistosomes were
first described by
geneticist Margaret Menzel and parasitologist...
- have been reported. On the
other hand,
female schistosomes do not
mature without a male.
Female schistosomes from single-****
infections are underdeveloped...
-
freshwater snails, as
intermediate hosts, just like
other schistosomes. But
unlike other schistosomes that
release eggs in the intestine, it
releases its eggs...
-
Unlike most flatworms,
schistosomes are gonochoric. The
narrow female can be seen
emerging from the
thicker male's
gynecophoral canal below his ventral...
- and
infect the
gastrointestinal tract.
Other parasitic worms such as
schistosomes reside in
blood vessels. Some
parasitic worms,
including leeches and...
- and pinworms,
tapeworms (cestodes), and
flukes (trematodes, such as
schistosomes).
Diseases caused by
helminths are
sometimes termed infestations, but...
