Interactions between natural populations of human and rodent schistosomes in the Lake Victoria region of Kenya: a molecular epidemiological approach.

• Main Authors: Michelle L Steinauer (Author), Ibrahim N Mwangi (Author), Geoffrey M Maina (Author), Joseph M Kinuthia (Author), Martin W Mutuku (Author), Eric L Agola (Author), Ben Mungai (Author), Gerald M Mkoji (Author), Eric S Loker (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Schistosoma mansoni exists in a complex environmental milieu that may select for significant evolutionary changes in this species. In Kenya, the sympatric distribution of S. mansoni with S. rodhaini potentially influences the epidemiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology of both species, because t...