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Double image: schistosomes starve to death in rhesus macaques.
The ovaries of a starved female schistosome from a rhesus macaque (left) and a normal female (right). The infection becomes patent in the macaque and eggs are produced, but the host immune system slowly overwhelms the worms, they cease feeding, and eventually starve to death, suggesting a route to a human therapeutic vaccine (see Wilson et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000290).
Image Credit: Joanne Marrison, Gary Dillon, and Alan Wilson
Citation: (2008) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 2(9) September 2008. PLoS Neglect Trop Dis 2(9): ev02.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v02.i09
Published: September 24, 2008
Copyright: © 2008 Marrison. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The ovaries of a starved female schistosome from a rhesus macaque (left) and a normal female (right). The infection becomes patent in the macaque and eggs are produced, but the host immune system slowly overwhelms the worms, they cease feeding, and eventually starve to death, suggesting a route to a human therapeutic vaccine (see Wilson et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000290).
Image Credit: Joanne Marrison, Gary Dillon, and Alan Wilson