Characteristics of the Human Host Have Little Influence on Which Local Schistosoma mansoni Populations Are Acquired

• Lúcio M. Barbosa,

  Affiliations Gonçalo Moniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  ⨯
• Luciano K. Silva,

  Affiliation Gonçalo Moniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  ⨯
• Eliana A. Reis,

  Affiliation Gonçalo Moniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  ⨯
• Theomira M. Azevedo,

  Affiliation Gonçalo Moniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  ⨯
• Jackson M. Costa,

  Affiliation Gonçalo Moniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  ⨯
• Walter A. Blank,

  Affiliation Case Western Reserve University, Center for Global Health and Diseases, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  ⨯
• Mitermayer G. Reis,

  Affiliation Gonçalo Moniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  ⨯
• Ronald E. Blanton

  * E-mail: reb6@case.edu

  Affiliations Case Western Reserve University, Center for Global Health and Diseases, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Centre, Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centre, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  ⨯