From the Mouse Model to Natural Human Infection

1. Funding

Wellcome Trust

2. Collaborators

Dr Mduluza, University of Zimbabwe

Dr Nicholas Midzi, NIHR Zimbabwe

Dr Francois Trottein, Institut Pasteur, Lille

3. Field work

Murewa district in Zimbabwe

4. Aims

The objective of this project is to test in natural human schistosomiasis hypotheses on the nature and development of schistosome-specific acquired immunity that have arisen from mouse experimental studies.