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Fig. 2

From: Assessing S. mansoni prevalence in Biomphalaria snails in the Gombe ecosystem of western Tanzania: the importance of DNA sequence data for clarifying species identification

Fig. 2

Variation of S. mansoni infection in snails sampled from Gombe National Park and surrounding villages. Infection is based on percentage of snails sampled that shed larvae (light bars) or showed presence of a 500 bp amplification product in PCR (dark bars). Note that S. mansoni was confirmed based on morphology for shed larvae and its presence was confirmed through PCR in all populations except Kigoma, where the 500 bp band was found to amplify a different species of trematode. Since not all products were sequenced, the presence of S. mansoni thus could be overestimated based only on PCR

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Parasites & Vectors

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