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Schistosomiasis Resource Center
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What services does this resource provide?
The Schistosomiasis Resource Center
- Produces infected snails and mammals and molecular reagents
- Snails and mammals are infected with life-cycle stage Schistosoma mansoni, S. haematobium, and S. japonicum, the three major schistosome species affecting humans.
- Non-living schistosome stages, or extracts, are not available, due to the wide variety of schistosome antigenic extracts used for experimental purposes
- Offers support to the research community
- Provides Standard Operating Procedures for working with infected animals.
- Disseminates technical information to laboratories on snail cultivation, parasite collection, and host infection
- Serves as a backup facility for those investigators who have had problems maintaining life-cycle stages of parasites in their own laboratories
Click here to access a summary of the history, activities, and accomplishments of the Schistosomiasis Resource Center.
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