Freshwater worm eggs enter human hosts through the skin and circulate throughout ... early stage infection. Your body ...

Humans acquire the infection by contact with water from freshwater lakes containing schistosomal larvae, which penetrate the skin and migrate ... are infected with schistosomiasis each year.

such as schistosomiasis and leishmaniasis. Eumycetoma is another target for Kaneko. This is a chronic skin infection caused by a variety of soil fungi and bacteria, mainly in Sudan. “We know ...