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Do all human urinary infections with Schistosoma mattheei Represent hybridization between S. haematobium and S. mattheei?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

F. J. Kruger  and
A. C. Evans
F. J. Kruger
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Diseases in a Tropical Environment of the South African Medical Research Council, P.O. Box 634, Nelspruit 1200, Republic of South Africa
A. C. Evans
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Diseases in a Tropical Environment of the South African Medical Research Council, P.O. Box 634, Nelspruit 1200, Republic of South Africa
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Abstract

Enzyme electrophoresis indicated that all Schistosoma mattheei eggs passed in the urine of humans derive from S. mattheei females in copula with S. haematobium males. It appears that S. mattheei males do not reach sexual maturity in man; however, S. haematobium×S. mattheei males possibly do.

Keywords

Schistosoma mattheeiSchistosoma haematobiumhybridizationenzyme electrophoresisisoelectric focussing
Type
Research Note
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 330 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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