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Fig. 1 | Parasites & Vectors

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From: Striking differences in virulence, transmission and sporocyst growth dynamics between two schistosome populations

Fig. 1

Outline of the experimental design. We used two independent cohorts of Biomphalaria glabrata Bg26 inbred snails. Each snail was exposed to one miracidium from the SmLE (HS) or SmBRE (LS) Schistosoma mansoni populations. In Cohort 1, we measured transmission stage production for SmLE (HS) and SmBRE (LS) populations during 4 weeks of the patent period (week 4 to 7 post-infection). We also evaluated the virulence of these two populations of parasite by measuring the daily snail survival during the patent period. After 7.5 weeks post-infection, surviving infected snails were bled and we measured the total laccase-like activity as well as the hemoglobin rate in the collected hemolymph samples. We used Cohort 2 to determine the weekly sporocyst growth dynamics in snails for the late prepatent (week 3) and the patent period (week 4 to 8)

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