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Interactions between natural populations of human and rodent schistosomes in the Lake Victoria region of Kenya: a molecular epidemiological approach.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 16 Apr 2008
Steinauer Michelle L, Mwangi Ibrahim N, Maina Geoffrey M, Kinuthia Joseph M, Mutuku Martin W, Agola Eric L, Mungai Ben, Mkoji Gerald M, Loker Eric S
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BACKGROUND: Schistosoma mansoni exists in a complex environmental milieu that may select for significant evolutionary changes in this species. In Kenya, the sympatric distribution of S. mansoni with S. rodhaini potentially influences the epidemiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology of both species, because they infect the same species of snail and mammalian hosts and are capable of hybridization....
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