• Schistosoma mansoni is a parasitic platyhelminth responsible for intestinal bilharzia. (hal.science)
  • This review summarises the historical advances in functional genomics in parasitic helminths and highlights pending limitations that will need to be overcome to deploy transgenesis tools. (biomedcentral.com)
  • [3] The parasitic worms ( helminths ) are the cause of soil-transmitted helminthiases . (kryptonshuff759.click)
  • Pinworm infection ( threadworm infection in the UK), also known as enterobiasis , is a human parasitic disease caused by the pinworm . (wikipedia.org)
  • It is estimated that hundreds of millions of people harbor parasitic worms and one-third of the almost three billion people that live below the poverty line in developing regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Americas are infected with one or more helminth. (ijpjournal.com)
  • S. mansoni adapts rapidly to new (allopatric) strains of its intermediate host. (hal.science)
  • Schistosomes, parasitic platyhelminths that cause schistosomiasis, express two β subunit subtypes: a structurally conventional β subunit and a variant β subunit with unusual functional properties. (mblwhoilibrary.org)
  • While basic research on parasitic flatworms (platyhelminths) continues to expand, researchers have yet to broadly adopt a free-living model to complement the study of these important parasites. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It is a parasitic nematode worm and commonly known as the Old World hookworm. (wikipedia.org)