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Host mouse strain is not selective for a laboratory adapted strain of Schistosoma mansoni.
The Journal of parasitology - 1 Jun 2011
Blank Walter A, Liu Shi Fan, Prasad Jayendra, Blanton Ronald E
Abstract excerpt
We genotyped pooled adult worms of Schistosoma mansoni from infected CF1, C57BL/6, BALB/c, and BALB/c interferon gamma knockout mice in order to establish if mouse strain differences selected for parasite genotypes. We also compared differentiation in eggs collected from liver and intestines to determine if there was differential distribution of parasite strains in the vertebrate host that might account for any...
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