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

• Päätekijät: Julien Kincaid-Smith (Tekijä), Alan Tracey (Tekijä), Ronaldo de Carvalho Augusto (Tekijä), Ingo Bulla (Tekijä), Nancy Holroyd (Tekijä), Anne Rognon (Tekijä), Olivier Rey (Tekijä), Cristian Chaparro (Tekijä), Ana Oleaga (Tekijä), Santiago Mas-Coma (Tekijä), Jean-François Allienne (Tekijä), Christoph Grunau (Tekijä), Matthew Berriman (Tekijä), Jérôme Boissier (Tekijä), Eve Toulza (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...