Indian schistosomes need investigations from international scientific community

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology is releasing a special issue on schistosomiasis in December 2011. I have contributed above article for the journal.In fact, this is the invitation to international scientists to work (particularly molecular studies) on Indian schistosomes and their interactions in same host. It is interesting to know why Indian pigs have innate resistance to all Indian schistosomes except S.incognitum or why Sheep,goats suffer acutely with S.indicum,S.spindale,S.incognitum but S.nasale fails to reach to maturity in them. In my opinion, immunological studies in these lines will pave the way how man can be protected with pathogenic schistosome species. In my opinion, this is the time to work on interactions among schistosome species and their outcome for better understanding epidemiology of the disease.