Biomphalaria pfeifferi
Analysis of mating system, fecundity, hatching and survival rates in two Schistosoma mansoni intermediate hosts (Biomphalaria pfeifferi and Biomphalaria camerunensis) in Cameroon
... B. pfeifferi [20, 32], an important number of copula- tions was observed in our ...B. pfeifferi populations ...B. pfeifferi populations, copula- tions were observed in all pairs, indicating that ...
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Molluscicidal effect of Achyranthes aspera L. (Amaranthaceae) aqueous extract on adult snails of Biomphalaria pfeifferi and Lymnaea natalensis
... Background: Intestinal schistosomiasis caused by Schistosoma mansoni is a wide spread disease in most parts of Ethiopian highlands. Snail control is one major strategy in schistosomiasis control. The use of molluscicidal ...
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Molluscicidal Activity of Acacia seyal (Dell) Bark Methanolic Extract Against Biomphalaria pfeifferi Snails
... The Molluscicidal activity of many Sudanese medicinal plants against a variety of snail vectors of tropical diseases have been well investigated (24- 30). Most of the extracts from these medicinal plants show remarkable ...
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Field derived Schistosoma mansoni and Biomphalaria pfeifferi in Kenya: a compatible association characterized by lack of strong local adaptation, and presence of some snails able to persistently produce cercariae for over a year
... between Biomphalaria snails and ...8 Biomphalaria species and 34 different populations, exposed to 7 different isolates of ...B. pfeifferi known for their broad susceptibility to ...of ...
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Biomphalaria pfeifferi Snails and Intestinal Schistosomiasis, Lake Malawi, Africa, 2017–2018
... pfeifferi colonisation within the lake and suspected transmission risk of intestinal schistosomiasis, a conjoint malacological and parasitological survey was undertaken [r] ...
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Transmission patterns among freshwater snail hosts of schistosomiasis in Bauchi area of Nigeria
... Schistosomiasis is endemic in the Bauchi area of Nigeria but little information is available on transmission patterns on basis of which an effective strategy for control can be developed. Consequently, a longitudinal ...
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Mapping freshwater snails in north western Angola: distribution, identity and molecular diversity of medically important taxa
... of Biomphalaria salinarum suggested a close affinity with Biomphalaria pfeifferi (not shown); DNA sequence was highly similar to ...B. pfeifferi for the cox1 barcoding region (up to 99% ...
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Morphological and molecular characterization of invasive Biomphalaria straminea in southern China
... of Biomphalaria was performed through morphological study of five specimens from each location sites in Shenzhen, Guangdong ...snail Biomphalaria pfeifferi (Krauss, 1848) concluded that environmental ...
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CONTRIBUTION TO THE INVENTORY AND ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER SNAILS OF SMALL STREAMS OF LWIRO AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, EASTERN OF DR CONGO
... de: Biomphalaria pfeifferi (Krauss, 1948), Lymnaea natalensis (Krauss, 1948), Bulinus forskalii (Ehrenberg, 1931), Bulinus globosus (Morelet, 1866), Pila ovata (Olivier, 1804), Tomichia kivuensis ...
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Changes in the neuropeptide content of Biomphalaria ganglia nervous system following Schistosoma infection
... TMHMM. Biomphalaria glabrata neuropeptides were predicted by annotating protein sequences derived from the gen- ome and transcriptome to the precursor proteins of known molluscan neuropeptides downloaded from the ...
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Molluscicidal effectiveness of Luo-Wei, a novel plant-derived molluscicide, against Oncomelania hupensis, Biomphalaria alexandrina and Bulinus truncatus
... interrupting the transmission of schistosomiasis. Some plant extracts have shown obvious molluscicidal activity, and a new compound Luo-Wei, also named tea-seed distilled saponin (TDS), was developed based on the ...
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Striking differences in virulence, transmission and sporocyst growth dynamics between two schistosome populations
... Methods: We infected inbred Biomphalaria glabrata snails using two S. mansoni parasite populations (SmBRE and SmLE), both isolated from Brazil and maintained in the laboratory for decades. We compared life history ...
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Infection with schistosome parasites in snails leads to increased predation by prawns: implications for human schistosomiasis control
... and Biomphalaria glabrata (Say 1818) snails were reared and supplied by the NIH-NIAID Schistosomiasis Resource Center (Rockville, MD, USA) for distribution by BEI Resources (Biomphalaria glabrata, strain ...
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Distribution and current infection status of Biomphalaria straminea in Hong Kong
... To date, there are 34 described species of Biompha- laria snails, 18 of which have been demonstrated to be infected by S. mansoni, either naturally or experimen- tally [3]. Different geographical locations are dominated ...
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Impact of the photosensitizers hematoporphyrin coated gold nanoparticles on biomphalaria alexandrina snails
... 5 × 10 –5 mole/dicemeter –3 ), to evaluate their ef- ficacy on survival rate, egg-laying capacity of Biomphalaria alexandrina snails and on histo- logical deteriorations in their hermaphrodite gland. B. ...
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No effect of mate novelty on sexual motivation in the freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata
... After excluding dead snails and their partners, non-mating pairs in the first mating trial, or 'novel partner' focals for which we could not find a mate with complementary history, all R[r] ...
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Central nervous system transcriptome of Biomphalaria alexandrina, an intermediate host for schistosomiasis
... for Biomphalaria glabrata, the major intermedi- ate host in the Western Hemisphere, identified several potential targets for developing novel control measures ...[4–6], Biomphalaria alexandrina is the ...
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Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science
... The considerable toxic effect of the plant F. selloa marginata might be due to steroidal saponins, the main constituents of Agavaceae (Mahato et al., 1982), that are known to possesss molluscicidal activities, due to ...
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Formin is associated with left right asymmetry in the pond snail and the frog
... We used genomic and transcriptomic resources, and new se- quences, to explore links between diaphanous formin and chiral evolution. First, we found that the chromosomal region that contains the L. stagnalis chirality ...
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Longitudinal survey on the distribution of Biomphalaria sudanica and B choanomophala in Mwanza region, on the shores of Lake Victoria, Tanzania: implications for schistosomiasis transmission and control
... on Biomphalaria snail species in the Mwanza region of Lake Victoria, ...season. Biomphalaria choanomphala varied greatly across sites but generally decreased with increasing lon- gitude and were negatively ...
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