Article
Misleading inference of schistosome epidemiology from ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and mitochondrial DNA
2026-05-05
Abstract excerpt
The nuclear, internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and mitochondrial cox1 markers are widely used to differentiate Schistosoma haematobium from its livestock counterparts, S. bovis and S. curassoni. Schistosoma isolated from humans with ITS and cox1 alleles from livestock parasites are typically inferred to be zoonotic infections and those with heterozygous ITS alleles (suggesting mixed species ancestry) are classifie...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 395216be-a826-5c5c-a050-57a14e011519
- DOI
- 10.64898/2026.04.30.721997