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“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

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mattheei, a livestock parasite, as well as evidence that S. mattheei had mixed with S. mansoni, the species normally associated with human intestinal infection. These findings offer new insight ...