ArticleParasitology2018
Occurrence of Schistosoma bovis on Pemba Island, Zanzibar: implications for urogenital schistosomiasis transmission monitoring.
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- The research contribution of the Schistosomiasis Collection at the Natural History Museum (SCAN): highlights, challenges and future directions.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2025Review
- A pilot investigation of bovine schistosomiasis on Unguja Island, Zanzibar, raises a new concern for elimination of urogenital schistosomiasis.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Analysis of DNA cox1 barcoding revealed novel haplotype in Schistosoma haematobium isolated from Western Sudan.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- African schistosomes in small mammal communities: Perspectives from a spatio-temporal survey in the vicinity of Lake Guiers, Senegal.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Urogenital schistosomiasis among school children in northwestern Tanzania: Prevalence, intensity of infection, associated factors, and pattern of urinary tract morbidities.Parasite epidemiology and control · 2024Article
- Freshwater snail-borne parasitic diseases in Africa.Tropical medicine and health · 2024Review
- Development, validation, and pilot application of a high throughput molecular xenomonitoring assay to detectCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2024Article
- Geographical Influence on Morphometric Variability of Genetically "Pure"Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Molecular characterization of schistosome cercariae and theirCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2023Article
- Assessment of schistosomiasis transmission in the River Nile at Greater Cairo using malacological surveys and cercariometry.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2022Article
- Transmission and diversity of Schistosoma haematobium and S. bovis and their freshwater intermediate snail hosts Bulinus globosus and B. nasutus in the Zanzibar Archipelago, United Republic of Tanzania.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Comparative mitogenomics of freshwater snails of the genus Bulinus, obligatory vectors of Schistosoma haematobium, causative agent of human urogenital schistosomiasis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Genome-wide insights into adaptive hybridisation across the Schistosoma haematobium group in West and Central Africa.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Spillover, hybridization, and persistence in schistosome transmission dynamics at the human-animal interface.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Diverging patterns of introgression from Schistosoma bovis across S. haematobium African lineages.PLoS pathogens · 2021Article
- The detection ofCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2021Article
- Development of a Molecular Snail Xenomonitoring Assay to DetectMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Parasite Population Genetic Contributions to the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation within Sub-Saharan Africa.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Review
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Abstract
The causative agent of urogenital schistosomiasis, Schistosoma haematobium, was thought to be the only schistosome species transmitted through Bulinus snails on Unguja and Pemba Island (Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania). For insights into the environmental risk of S. haematobium transmission on Pemba Island, malacological surveys collecting Bulinus globosus and B. nasutus, two closely related potential intermediate hosts of S. haematobium were conducted across the island in November 2016. Of 1317 B. globosus/B. nasutus collected, seven B. globosus, identified through sequencing a DNA region of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (cox1), were observed with patent infections assumed to be S. haematobium. However, when the collected cercariae were identified through sequencing a region of the cox1 and the nuclear internal transcribed spacer (ITS1 + 2), schistosomes from five of these B. globosus collected from a single locality were in fact S. bovis. The identified presence of S. bovis raises concerns for animal health on Pemba, and complicates future transmission monitoring of S. haematobium. These results show the pertinence for not only sensitive, but also species-specific markers to be used when identifying cercariae during transmission monitoring, and also provide the first molecular confirmation for B. globosus transmitting S. bovis in East Africa.
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