The CHGC also recognized that the research into the genome of the
blood fluke would require them to run much more than BLAST-n.
They are relevant to medical researchers because they are the putative immediate ancestors to the
blood flukes that cause schistosomiasis (Schistosomatidae), a disease that debilitates millions of people annually.
New
blood flukes (Trematoda: Spirochiidae) from the marine turtle, Chelonia mydas (L.
Schistosomes are
blood flukes, or flatworms, that infect people through the skin during the parasite's waterborne larval stage.
Blood flukes, another type of metazoan, cause schistosomiasis, a major public-health problem affecting more than 200 million people in Africa, Asia, and South America.
Bilharziasis Parasites called
blood flukes are responsible for this disease, which affects 200 million people a year in Egypt, Africa, the Far East, South America, Portugal and Cyprus.
On two
blood flukes (trematoda) of the family Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921 from Indian marine turtles.
To the Editor: Schistosomiasis, known since ancient times, is caused by
blood flukes (Trematoda: Schistosomidae).
