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Because of the continual emergence of drug-resistant parasites throughout the world, a need for a fundamental knowledge of the signaling pathways of the parasite has been recognized.
These slow flowing waters are infested with snails that serve as the vector for the schistosomal parasite.
Taken together, these results suggest that the parasite cell in the trophozoite stage is dedicated to cell growth, and the predominant function of the mid-late schizont stage is maturation of the next generation of merozoites.
Multiple antigen peptide vaccines can also be designed to contain T and B epitope regions from numerous protein antigens derived from a complex infectious agent which could therefore confer broad protection without the potential dangers of an attenuated whole organism vaccine [ 16 ] . However, it is of note that occasionally a well-designed peptide-based vaccine can elicit strong antibody responses to the synthetic immunogen that do not confer protection from the parasite to which they were originally designed [ 23 ] . This may be due to either the induction of an inappropriate antibody isotype in the mouse strain used, or to an inadequate overall response.
Therefore the cluster might represent up to three individuals raising the possible number of resident tigers to 6. The cluster 5 consisted of samples having between 5 to 20 Diphyllobothrium eggs per gram and no other parasite.