Volume 12 Issue 7, July 2006
On page 835, Loukas and colleagues show that individuals resistant to schistosomal infection make immune responses to the schistosomal tetraspanin TSP2. In mice, the authors show that TSP2 is a promising antischistosomal vaccine candidate, reducing adult worm burdens and liver and fecal egg counts. The cover image shows paired adult-stage Schistosoma mansoni blood flukes. The larger male worm is carrying the female worm in his gynecophoral canal. This is a permanent state of mating and is how adult worms are usually found in vivo. Photo courtesy of Malcolm Jones, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia.
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