Biomphalaria snails and larval trematodes | Semantic Scholar (2024)

This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of the EMMARM, as to provide real-time information about the response of the immune system to EMTs.

A significant influence of host size on prevalence and infection intensity, and a tendency towards density-dependent reductions in the growth of cysts are shown in this first study in Argentina analyzing the population biology of Kalipharynx sp.

Results suggest that the immunocompetance of B.glabrata hemocytes is broadly reduced in the presence of DDE, BPA, E2 and an effluent extract; chemicals that occur at high levels in transmission countries.

The population genetic structure of B. pfeifferi snails in Madziwa area, Zimbabwe has provided an opportunity to investigate the contribution of snail genetics to variation in disease burden; and development of control strategies that exploit genetic differences in susceptibility to parasites.

Using both anatomical and molecular analyses, this study demonstrated the existence of black- and red-coloured shell B. straminea in different districts in the New Territories in Hong Kong, including places close to the mainland China border, and evidence of infection with S. mansoni has been found.

The results indicate that the Pampulha reservoir remains a potential focus of urban schistosomiasis in Brazil, and significant changes in the occurrence patterns of Biomphalaria species were verified.

The results represent the first functional characterization of a gastropod TLR, and demonstrate that BgTLR is an important snail immune receptor that is capable of influencing infection outcome following S. mansoni challenge.

It is shown that a species of river prawn indigenous to the west coast of Africa, Macrobrachium vollenhovenii, could offer a low-cost, sustainable form of snail control that, when used in synergy with existing drug distribution campaigns, could reduce or locally eliminate the parasite.

The present work aimed to study ecological aspects related to the distribution pattern of medically important and native freshwater mollusks, found in a rural municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and reflect on and discuss the need for the control of important intermediate hosts, as well as the conservation of endangered species.

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The biology of bulinus snail control local snail faunas chemical and physical factors life cycles and populations regions, lakes and rivers - biography.

Phylogenetic analysis confirmed that these Bolivian specimens belong to B. amazonica.

Patterns of water contact and Schistosoma mansoni exposure by age, sex, tribe and space within a single village are explored.

The study of bivalve autecology and gastropod life history has revealed a rich and complex web of interactions between these animals and humans, as well as new ideas about how to better understand these interactions.

The fresh water mollusc,Lymnaea tomentosa, the intermediate host of the liver fluke is heavily infested under natural conditions with ectocommensal annelid, Chaetogaster limnaei, which is of value in exploiting a control measure against economically important liver fluked disease.

A description is given of the shell, head-foot, pulmonary wall, reproductive system and radula of Biomphalaria subprona and two other congeneric species under 10 mm in shell diameter occurring in Middle America are presented.

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