Genome of parasitic flatworm that causes schistosomiasis decoded

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic worm, commonly known as a blood fluke, that infects 210 million in 76 countries through freshwater snails, and each year causing 280,000 deaths in sub-Saharan Africa alone. The research, said to be the largest genome sequencing of a parasite to date, is the cover article in the 16 July issue of Nature...

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