Journal: Parasites & Vectors

Article Title: Population genetics and molecular xenomonitoring of Biomphalaria freshwater snails along the southern shoreline of Lake Malawi, Malawi

doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06546-5

Figure Lengend Snippet: Overview of the 41 sites surveyed during malacological surveys 1, 2 and 3, Lake Malawi, Mangochi District, Malawi. Yellow circles denote sites where Biomphalaria were found during at least one of all three surveys. Red circles denote sites where Biomphalaria snails were not found during any of the three surveys (Additional file : Table S1). Only one Biomphalaria was found to be actively shedding Schistosoma cercariae (later identified as S. mansoni ) during cercarial shedding analyses (during survey 3) at survey site 27; denoted by red arrow. Malawi’s country border can be seen within the figure inset (upper left corner). Inset: study area is highlighted by red box. Figure was generated using the ‘mapview’ package version 2.10.0 within R Studio version 2021.09.0, build 351 (Posit, Boston, MA, USA)

Article Snippet: Figure was generated using the ‘mapview’ package version 2.10.0 [ ] within R Studio version 2021.09.0, build 351 (Posit, Boston, MA, USA) [ ] The S. mansoni ND5 TCS haplotype network is shown in Fig. . Two distinct clusters were formed, each comprising three unique haplotypes.

Techniques: Generated

Journal: Parasites & Vectors

Article Title: Population genetics and molecular xenomonitoring of Biomphalaria freshwater snails along the southern shoreline of Lake Malawi, Malawi

doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06546-5

Figure Lengend Snippet: Malacological surveillance sites where Biomphalaria were collected and where Schistosoma mansoni transmission was or was not identified using molecular xenomonitoring. Site IDs are outlined in white circles (see Additional file : Tables S1, S2). The cercarial shedding analyses revealed that only one Biomphalaria (during survey 3) was actively shedding Schistosoma cercariae, which was later identified as S. mansoni , at survey site 27 (denoted with the red arrow). Malawi’s country border can be seen within figure inset (upper left corner). Within the inset, the study area is highlighted by a red box. Figure was generated using the ‘mapview’ package version 2.10.0 within R Studio version 2021.09.0, build 351 (Posit, Boston, MA, USA)

Article Snippet: Figure was generated using the ‘mapview’ package version 2.10.0 [ ] within R Studio version 2021.09.0, build 351 (Posit, Boston, MA, USA) [ ] The S. mansoni ND5 TCS haplotype network is shown in Fig. . Two distinct clusters were formed, each comprising three unique haplotypes.

Techniques: Transmission Assay, Generated