Sentence examples for blood fluke from inspiring English sources

In the Far East, S. japonicum is the important blood fluke.

The Aswan High Dam in Egypt, for example, has produced conditions especially favourable for the breeding of the snail that serves as the required intermediate host of the blood fluke (Schistosoma mansoni).

These same communities also may have been affected by bilharziasis, or schistosomiasis (blood fluke disease), which requires a species of freshwater snail for propagation and which even today follows many extensions of irrigation into arid lands.

The tegument of the adult blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum is in direct contact with the host blood and immune systems.

This makes it easy prey for birds, enabling the blood fluke to switch hosts when the fish gets eaten.

In the present study, an integrated immunoproteomics and bioinformatics approach was used to profile the tegument of the human blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum.

Free-swimming larvae (called cercariae) of blood flukes penetrate the human skin directly.

Roundworms, tapeworms, amoebae, hookworms, strongyloides, threadworms, and blood flukes (schistosomiasis) are the main types of parasites.

Parasites such as blood flukes may burrow into the bladder wall and cause bleeding.

Blood flukes have passed between snails and rats at watering holes on the African savanna for millions of years.

Schistosomiasis (bilharziasis) is a major human disease caused by three species of the genus Schistosoma, known collectively as blood flukes.