To date there is only one single drug with modest efficacy and no vaccine available to protect from schistosomiasis. Here, Amaral et al. characterize the self-cure process of rhesus macaques following primary infection and secondary challenge with Schistosoma mansoni to inform future vaccine development studies.
- Murilo Sena Amaral
- Daisy Woellner Santos
- Sergio Verjovski-Almeida