Schistosome migration in the definitive host.
Schistosomes are parasitic blood flukes that infect >200 million people around the world. Free-swimming larval stages penetrate the skin, invade a blood vessel, and migrate through the heart and lungs to the vasculature of the liver, where maturation and mating occurs. From here, the parasite cou...
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Main Authors: | Catherine S Nation (Author), Akram A Da'dara (Author), Jeffrey K Marchant (Author), Patrick J Skelly (Author) |
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2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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