Schistosoma

id: schistosoma-173-12309149
title: Schistosoma
text: Schistosoma is a genus of trematodes, commonly known as blood flukes. They are parasitic flatworms responsible for a highly significant group of infections in humans termed schistosomiasis, which is considered by the World Health Organization to be the second-most socioeconomically devastating parasitic disease, with hundreds of millions infected worldwide. Adult flatworms parasitize blood capillaries of either the mesenteries or plexus of the bladder, depending on the infecting species. They ar
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description: Genus of flukes
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosoma
date created: 2003-11-24T12:58:47Z
date modified: 2024-09-02T10:52:39Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Schistosoma_mansoni.jpg","width":185,"height":141}
fields total: 13
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