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Population genetics of the Schistosoma snail host Bulinus truncatus in Egypt.
Rima Zein-Eddine,Félicité Flore Djuikwo-Teukeng,Y. Dar,Gilles Dreyfuss,Frederik Van den Broeck +4 more
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Signs of gene flow and cross-fertilization are found, even between snails from the Nile Delta and Upper Egypt, indicating that B. truncatus can travel across large distances in Egypt, which could have serious consequences for disease epidemiology.About:
This article is published in Acta Tropica.The article was published on 2017-08-01. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bulinus truncatus & Freshwater snail.read more
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Habitat suitability modelling for predicting potential habitats of freshwater snail intermediate hosts in Omo-Gibe river basin, Southwest Ethiopia
Getachew Yigezu,Belayhun Mandefro,Yifrashewa Mengesha,Delenasaw Yewhalaw,Abebe Beyene,Mahmud Ahmednur,Yihun Abdie,Helmut Kloos,Seid Tiku Mereta +8 more
TL;DR: Preventing human disturbance in water bodies may enhance aquatic biodiversity, thereby increasing the abundance of snail predators and competitors, according to the habitat gradient studied.
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DNA and eDNA-based tracking of the North African sharptooth catfish Clarias gariepinus.
Aya Ibrahim Elberri,Asmaa Galal-Khallaf,Sarah Emad Gibreel,Said Fathallah El-Sakhawy,Islam El-Garawani,Sobhy Hassab El-Nabi,Khaled Mohammed-Geba +6 more
TL;DR: A study of the genetic diversity of the African sharptooth catfish along the River Nile in Egypt through sequencing of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) and a qPCR assay developed to assess the species abundance through environmental water DNA samples (eDNA).
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Molecular identification of Bulinus spp. intermediate host snails of Schistosoma spp. in crater lakes of western Uganda with implications for the transmission of the Schistosoma haematobium group parasites.
Immaculate Tumwebaze,Catharina Clewing,Marie Claire Dusabe,Julius Tumusiime,Grace Kagoro-Rugunda,Cyril Hammoud,Cyril Hammoud,Christian Albrecht,Christian Albrecht +8 more
TL;DR: This first detailed malacological study of the crater lakes systems in western Uganda revealed presence of Bulinus species that are either not known or not regionally known to be hosts for S. haematobium, the causing agent of human urogenital schistosomiasis.
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Phylogeography of Bulinus truncatus (Audouin, 1827) (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Selected African Countries.
Eniola Michael Abe,Yun-Hai Guo,Hai-Mo Shen,Masceline Jenipher Mutsaka-Makuvaza,Mohamed R. Habib,Jing-Bo Xue,Nicholas Midzi,Jing Xu,Shi-Zhu Li,Xiao-Nong Zhou +9 more
TL;DR: The location of populations from Egypt and Sudan on the B. truncatus clade agrees with the location of both countries geographically and the clustering of the Zimbabwe sequences on different locations on the clade can be attributed to individuals with different genotypes within the population.
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Molecular diversity of Bulinus species in Madziwa area, Shamva district in Zimbabwe: implications for urogenital schistosomiasis transmission
Masceline Jenipher Mutsaka-Makuvaza,Xiao-Nong Zhou,Cremance Tshuma,Eniola Michael Abe,Justen Manasa,Tawanda Manyangadze,Tawanda Manyangadze,Fiona Allan,Nyasha Chin'ombe,Bonnie L. Webster,Nicholas Midzi +10 more
TL;DR: Low prevalence levels of infection observed in the snails may reflect the low transmission level of urogenital schistosomiasis in the area, supporting the mapping of the transmission or risk of transmission ofUrogenitalSchistosoma haematobium, particularly in Zimbabwe.
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