Schistosoma mansoni: analysis of an unusual infection phenotype in the intermediate host snail Biomphalaria glabrata.

doi:10.1006/expr.1993.1092

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Schistosoma mansoni: analysis of an unusual infection phenotype in the intermediate host snail Biomphalaria glabrata.

Experimental parasitology - 1 Nov 1993

Lewis F A, Richards C S, Knight M, Cooper L A, Clark B

Abstract excerpt

Snails from a B. glabrata stock, selected for nonsusceptibility to the NMRI strain of S. mansoni, exhibited unusual schistosome infections, with multiple sporocysts prominent in the head-foot (foot-sporocysts). When F1 progeny from numerous crosses between well-defined susceptible (S) and resista...

Topics

Animals
Biomphalaria
Disease Vectors
Female
Host-Parasite Interactions
Male
Phenotype
Schistosoma mansoni

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