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Soluble Egg Antigen (SEA)

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Soluble egg antigen preparations of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium have been shown to have proliferative and genotoxic effects on tissues of their hosts. Examples are omega-1 protein of S. mansoni, IPSE/alpha-1 of S. mansoni, or several SEA preparations of S. haematobium.

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Mehlhorn, H. (2015). Soluble Egg Antigen (SEA). In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_2920-2

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