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Molecular dissection of laboratory contamination between two schistosome populations.
Parasites & vectors - 22 Dec 2024
Jutzeler Kathrin S, Platt Roy N, Li Xue, Morales Madison, Diaz Robbie, Le Clec'h Winka, Chevalier Frédéric D, Anderson Timothy J C
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BACKGROUND: Genomic analysis has revealed extensive contamination among laboratory-maintained microbes including malaria parasites, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Salmonella spp. Here, we provide direct evidence for recent contamination of a laboratory schistosome parasite population, and we investigate its genomic consequences. The Brazilian Schistosoma mansoni population SmBRE has several distinctive...
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