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SUBMITTER: Barbosa LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4844855 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barbosa Lúcio M LM Reis Eliana A EA Dos Santos Cláudio R A CR Costa Jackson M JM Carmo Theomira M TM Aminu Peace T PT Pitanga Thassila N TN Ponce-Terashima Rafael R Blank Walter A WA Silva Luciano K LK Reis Mitermayer G MG Blanton Ronald E RE
International journal for parasitology 20160304 5-6
Repeated treatments with praziquantel reduce schistosomiasis prevalence and morbidity, but transmission persists and populations often recover within a few years. To identify factors associated with persistence, we surveyed and treated all identified Schistosoma mansoni infections in two rural Brazilian communities (Jenipapo and Volta do Rio) in 2009, 2012 and 2013. Eggs were collected from all infected individuals and genotyped with 11 microsatellite markers to evaluate parasite differentiation ...[more]