A novel cell-free method to culture Schistosoma mansoni from cercariae to juvenile worm stages for in vitro drug testing

• Sören Frahm ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sören Frahm, Anisuzzaman Anisuzzaman

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5162-9859

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• Anisuzzaman Anisuzzaman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sören Frahm, Anisuzzaman Anisuzzaman

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Department of Parasitology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

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• Ulrich Fabien Prodjinotho,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

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• Nermina Vejzagić,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

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• Admar Verschoor ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Institute for Systemic Inflammation Research, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Clarissa Prazeres da Costa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: clarissa.dacosta@tum.de

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7996-4838

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