Human study and experimental behavior of Schistosoma mansoni isolates from patients with different clinical forms of schistosomiasis.

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Twenty Schistosoma mansoni strains were isolated from three groups of patients (intestinal, hepatointestinal and hepatosplenic clinical forms) born and living in the town of Capitão Andrade, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Schistosomal isolate from each group was inoculated into three sets of mice with 25, 50 and 100 cercariae. The animals were killed 90 and 180 days after infection and submitted to extensive...

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