Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 26th, 2004
According to a study from Brazil, "Progress on schistosome research has, until recently, suffered from limited genomic information. This situation changed dramatically in October 2003 with the simultaneous publication of the Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosome japonicum transcriptomes. A total of 450,000 expressed-sequence tags was obtained for S. japonicum, derived from adult worms and eggs. For S. mansoni, a total of {{approx}}125,000 ESTs was analyzed, derived from six different life cycle stages, and estimated to represent 92% of the...
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