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. 2021 Feb;37(2):176-177.
doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2020.06.003. Epub 2020 Jul 23.

Schistosoma mansoni

Timothy J C Anderson  1 , Egie E Enabulele  2
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Schistosoma mansoni

Timothy J C Anderson et al. Trends Parasitol. 2021 Feb.

Abstract

Schistosoma mansoni is the causative agent of intestinal schistosomiasis and infects ~54 million people annually, causing significant mortality and morbidity. This parasitic trematode is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, and colonized South America during the transatlantic slave trade. Parasites transition between five distinctive body plans, with asexual proliferation in the snail host and sexual proliferation in the vertebrate host, and motile free-living stages. Transmission results from contact with water containing infected Biomphalaria spp. snails. Infection prevalence and intensity peaks in school age children: both reduced water contact and acquired immunity reduces infection in adults. Pathology to the human host results from granulomas that form around eggs trapped in the liver and gut. These is no effective vaccine available: treatment of infected patients with praziquantel is the mainstay of control efforts.

Keywords: epidemiology; neoblasts; pathology; praziquantel; trematode.

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