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  • n  flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals

  • He ran a high fever, was so full of schistosome eggs that doctors cut nests of them out of his flesh.
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  • 45 years on: How serotonin makes schistosome parasites move
    ( Public Library of Science ) Schistosoma mansoni and its close relatives are parasitic flatworms that affect millions worldwide and kill an estimated 250,000 people a year. A study published on Jan. 16 in PLOS Pathogens identifies a new part of the molecular pathway that controls parasite movement. And because coordinated movement is essential for the schistosome life cycle in its human host ...
    Jan. 16, 2014 - EurekAlert!

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