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A new chronotype of Schistosoma mansoni: adaptive significance.
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH - 1 Jun 2012
Mouahid Gabriel, Idris Mohamed A, Verneau Olivier, Théron André, Shaban Mahmoud M A, Moné Hélène
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OBJECTIVES: To optimise host-to-host transmission, digenean trematodes (parasites) synchronize their cercarial emission patterns with the aquatic activities of their vertebrate hosts. Schistosoma mansoni has a strictly diurnal shedding pattern involving two circadian chronotypes: an early sheddin...
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