The fluke enters the human body through the ingestion of raw or undercooked contaminated fish. Once in the small intestines, the worm migrates to the liver's bile ducts, where it lodges, feeds and ...

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Opisthorchis viverrini is a parasitic flatworm (or liver fluke) endemic throughout Thailand, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Vietnam and Cambodia. Humans are infected with this parasite ...

Scientists have found that the human liver fluke (Opisthorchis viverrini) contributes to the development of bile duct (liver) cancer by secreting granulin, a growth hormone that is known to cause ...

Blood flukes, or schistosomes, are parasitic flatworms that can live inside people for decades, and they make a rather gruesome journey to get there — after hatching in water contaminated by ...

Schistosomiasis is caused by blood flukes, a type of flatworm whose larvae emerge from their snail hosts until they contact a human host and penetrate the skin.

Researchers have today published the complete genome sequence of the Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic worm – commonly known as a blood fluke – that causes devastating disease. The World Health ...

Criscione notes population genetic methods examining clonal dynamics in fluke parasites, or trematodes, didn't become common until the early 2000s, with that data actually indicating clonemates ...

K11777 deactivates enzymes called cysteine proteases, which a schistosome needs to digest proteins drawn from human blood. Disabling these enzymes “seems to starve the animal,” says study ...