The work was conducted as part of the HUGS (Hybridisation in Urogenital Schistosomiasis) study in southern Malawi. Several other papers from the HUGS study, and related work by other groups, are featured in the same theme issue

royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

These patterns raise important questions about current diagnostics and clinical morbidity in zoonotic schistosome transmission zones across Africa.

In this larger cohort of children, we frequently detected DNA from classically urogenital (S. haematobium) and livestock-associated (S. mattheei) schistosome species in faeces, and identified potential cross-species interactions that may influence worm migration.

This work builds on the case reports published last year in Emerging Infectious Diseases, where we first reported atypical eggs from the Schistosoma haematobium group detected in faeces in Mangochi District, Malawi

wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

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