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Blood flukes represent a diverse group of parasitic trematodes that exhibit complex lifecycles intricately linked to marine host species. Predominantly infecting the circulatory system of fish, these ...

Blood flukes, or schistosomes, are parasitic flatworms that can live inside people for decades, and they make a rather gruesome journey to get there — after hatching in water contaminated by feces, ...

Cercarial dermatitis is caused by the larvae of blood flukes that are parasites of birds or mammals. A new study suggests that a cercarial dermatitis outbreak in South Thailand was caused by the blood ...

James Collins never set out to study blood flukes. As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Collins was teasing out the mysterious sex lives of planarians, a kind ...

Surgery is not strictly a matter of cutting into patients and cutting something out. The A.M.A. last week heard about a new operation designed not to cut out but to filter out the tiny parasites that ...

The culprit of swimmer’s itch is the larval stage of a parasitic blood fluke that occurs naturally in most lakes. The two-month life cycle involves two hosts -- a bird and a snail. The adult parasite ...

THE LIGHTBULB: You go in the water and these things swim up to you and they go right through your skin without you knowing it. How does it do that? So I was hooked. That started me around 1985. I wasn ...

The first microsatellite-based genetic linkage map has been published for Schistosoma mansoni, a blood fluke that is known to infect over 90 million people in Africa, the Middle East and the New World ...