Morphological and genomic characterisation of the Schistosoma hybrid infecting humans in Europe reveals admixture between Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma bovis.

• Main Authors: Julien Kincaid-Smith (Author), Alan Tracey (Author), Ronaldo de Carvalho Augusto (Author), Ingo Bulla (Author), Nancy Holroyd (Author), Anne Rognon (Author), Olivier Rey (Author), Cristian Chaparro (Author), Ana Oleaga (Author), Santiago Mas-Coma (Author), Jean-François Allienne (Author), Christoph Grunau (Author), Matthew Berriman (Author), Jérôme Boissier (Author), Eve Toulza (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Schistosomes cause schistosomiasis, the world's second most important parasitic disease after malaria in terms of public health and social-economic impacts. A peculiar feature of these dioecious parasites is their ability to produce viable and fertile hybrid offspring. Originally only present i...