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- noun Plural form of
schistosome .
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The major forms of human schistosomiasis are caused by five species of water-borne flatworm, or blood flukes, called schistosomes:
Chapter 2 1996
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Disease caused by schistosomes, blood flukes that live in snails and humans.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Molecular evidence linking hominid evolution to recent radiation of schistosomes Platyhelminthes: Trematoda.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Disease caused by schistosomes, blood flukes that live in snails and humans.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The best studied are schistosomes, such as Schistosoma mansoni, which cause the disease schistisomiasis.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Molecular evidence linking hominid evolution to recent radiation of schistosomes Platyhelminthes: Trematoda.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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A vaccine that killed 40 percent of the worms in a person might create the opposite situation: the surviving schistosomes would sense that they had less competition and ratchet up the egg production, making the disease worse.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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It sounds like a worthy goal, but it ignores the sophistication of schistosomes.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The best studied are schistosomes, such as Schistosoma mansoni, which cause the disease schistisomiasis.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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A vaccine that killed 40 percent of the worms in a person might create the opposite situation: the surviving schistosomes would sense that they had less competition and ratchet up the egg production, making the disease worse.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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