You might think of snails as the little shelled creatures that you find crawling in your garden, or even as a delicacy of ...

Blood samples of patients infected with a parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis contain hidden information that marks different stages of the disease. In our recently published research ...

Freshwater snails carry different types of parasites, which lead to different diseases, and one of the most dangerous is schistosomiasis. This disease is caused by a parasitic worm that can enter ...

Schistosomiasis is one such disease—a persistent parasitic infection that affects an estimated 250 million people in 78 countries, particularly in Africa and Latin America. Because ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Blood samples of patients infected with a parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis contain hidden information that marks different stages of the disease. In our recently published ...

The parasite that causes schistosomiasis completes its life cycle in two hosts — first in snails and then in mammals such as people, dogs, and mice. Freshwater worm eggs enter human hosts ...

“Schistosomiasis remains a serious concern ... infection depending on which organs are affected by the eggs of the parasite, include abdominal pain, diarrhea, blood in stool or urine, and ...