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Schistosoma bovis in western Uganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2024

J.R. Stothard ,
A.E. Lockyer ,
N.B. Kabatereine ,
E.M. Tukahebwa ,
F. Kazibwe ,
D. Rollinson  and
A. Fenwick
J.R. Stothard*
Affiliation:
Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, W2 1PG, UK:
A.E. Lockyer
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK:
N.B. Kabatereine
Affiliation:
Vector Control Division, Ministry of Health, PO Box 1661, Kampala, Uganda
E.M. Tukahebwa
Affiliation:
Vector Control Division, Ministry of Health, PO Box 1661, Kampala, Uganda
F. Kazibwe
Affiliation:
Vector Control Division, Ministry of Health, PO Box 1661, Kampala, Uganda
D. Rollinson
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK:
A. Fenwick
Affiliation:
Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, W2 1PG, UK:
*
*Fax: +44 207 262 8140 Email: r.stothard@imperial.ac.uk
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Abstract

During routine parasitological surveillance and monitoring activities within a National Control Programme for control of human schistosomiasis in Uganda, it was noted that cattle grazing in a water meadow immediately adjacent to Tonya primary school, where the prevalence of intestinal schistosomiasis in children was in excess of 90%, were unusually emaciated. To test the hypothesis that there may have been an anthropozoonotic focus of Schistosoma mansoni within the local herd, a young female heifer, clearly emaciated and c. 8 months old, was slaughtered from which schistosome worms were later recovered by dissection. As female worms inspected by microscopy were not gravid, morphological identification proved inconclusive but analysis of cytochome oxidase subunit I (COI) and small subunit (SSU) ribosomal DNA sequences from these worms identified them as Schistosoma bovis Sonsino, 1876. This is the first substantiated report of S. bovis from Lake Albert, western Uganda. Further epidemiological surveys are needed to clarify the extent of bovine schistosomiasis within this region, particularly so since this lakeside plain has been earmarked as a future game reserve.

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Review Article
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 281 - 284
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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