Publications by authors named "J BOISSIER"
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- Dynamic covalent bonding (DCB) is gaining attention in materials science for its potential in drug development targeting tropical parasitic diseases like malaria and bilharziasis.
- Recent findings indicate that certain alkoxyamines, which showcase DCB, demonstrate significant effectiveness against these parasites, achieving 100% mortality in worms and specific inhibitory concentrations.
- The research utilizes both enzymatic-physical and enzymatic-chemical activation methods to enhance the efficacy of alkoxyamines, with the enzymatic component ensuring targeted drug action.
Schistosomiasis, known as bilharzia, is a parasitic disease caused by trematodes of the genus Schistosoma, found primarily in Africa and pockets of the Middle East. Southern Europe seems to be a breeding ground for urogenital schistosomiasis emergence. Ten and five years have passed since the first and the last cases of urogenital schistosomiasis were identified in Corsica (patients who have bathed in the Cavu and/or Solenzara rivers between 2013 and 2019).
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- A new nematode species, Dichelyne (Neocucullanellus) dakarensis n. sp., was identified from the intestines of the sompat grunt fish in Hann Bay, Dakar, Senegal.
- This species is unique within its subgenus due to having two ceca and specific features related to the arrangement of caudal papillae and the size of spicule veils.
- Both morphological and molecular analyses, such as SSU rDNA and COI, confirmed its distinct characteristics and indicated a close relationship with another species, Dichelyne cotylophora.
Hybridization of parasitic species is an emerging health problem in the evolutionary profile of infectious disease, particularly within trematodes of the genus Because the consequences of this hybridization are still relatively unknown, further studies are needed to clarify the epidemiology of the disease and the biology of hybrid schistosomes. In this article, we provide a detailed review of published results on schistosome hybrids of the group. Using a mapping approach, this review describes studies that have investigated hybridization in human (, and ) and animal ( and ) schistosome species in West Africa (Niger, Mali, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Nigeria) and in Central Africa (Cameroon, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo), as well as their limitations linked to the underestimation of their distribution in Africa.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Combating infectious diseases and halting biodiversity loss are intertwined challenges crucial to ensure global health. Biodiversity can constrain the spread of vector-borne pathogens circulation, necessitating a deeper understanding of ecological mechanisms underlying this pattern. Our study evaluates the relative importance of biodiversity and the abundance of Bulinus truncatus, a major intermediate host for the trematode Schistosoma haematobium on the circulation of this human pathogen at aquatic transmission sites.
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