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Schistosomiasis [PDF]

Digestion, 1998
Schistosomiasis is a man-made disease related to water contact in the agricultural fields and affecting millions of people in developing countries in the tropical and subtropical parts of Africa, Asia and South America. It is a bisexual trematode living in the portal blood and perivesical venous plexus.
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Spatio-temporal variations of emerging sites infested with schistosome-transmitting Oncomelania hupensis in Hunan Province, China, 1949–2016

Parasites & Vectors, 2021
Background Constant emerging sites infested with Oncomelania hupensis (O. hupensis) impede the goal realization of eliminating schistosomiasis. The study assessed the spatial and temporal distributions of new Oncomelania snail habitats in Hunan Province ...
Shengming Li, Ying Shi, Weicheng Deng, Guanghui Ren, Hongbin He, Benjiao Hu, Chunlin Li, Na Zhang, Yingyan Zheng, Yingjian Wang, Shurong Dong, Yue Chen, Qingwu Jiang, Yibiao Zhou   +13 more
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Urban schistosomiasis: An ecological study describing a new challenge to the control of this neglected tropical disease

The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2022
Summary: Background: Social and environmental vulnerabilities contribute to the persistence and increase of Schistosomiasis, which has been a public health problem in Brazil and worldwide.
Elainne Christine de Souza Gomes, Iris Edna Pereira da Silva, Wheverton Ricardo Correia do Nascimento, Rodrigo Moraes Loyo, Ana Lúcia Coutinho Domingues, Constança Simões Barbosa   +5 more
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Urogenital schistosomiasis in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique: baseline findings from the SCORE study

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background The results presented here are part of a five-year cluster-randomised intervention trial that was implemented to understand how best to gain and sustain control of schistosomiasis through different preventive chemotherapy strategies.
Anna E. Phillips, Pedro H. Gazzinelli-Guimarães, Herminio O. Aurelio, Neerav Dhanani, Josefo Ferro, Rassul Nala, Arminder Deol, Alan Fenwick   +7 more
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Modeling and validation of environmental suitability for Schistosomiasis transmission using remote sensing [PDF]

, 2015
Schistosomiasis is the most widespread water-based disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Transmission is governed by the spatial distribution of specific freshwater snails that act as intermediate hosts and human water contact patterns. Remote sensing data have
Jean-Noël Poda (828985), Dech, Stefan, Utzinger, Jürg, Stefan Dech, Penelope Vounatsou, Stefan Dech (251732), Walz, Yvonne, Yvonne Walz, Martin Wegmann (166813), Jürg Utzinger, Jean-Noël Poda, Giovanna Raso, Giovanna Raso (51489), Raso, Giovanna, Eliézer K. N'Goran (108853), Jürg Utzinger (39609), Wegmann, Martin, Penelope Vounatsou (49253), Poda, Jean-Noël, Martin Wegmann, Eliézer K N'Goran, Yvonne Walz (828984), N'Goran, Eliézer K., Vounastou, Penelope, Vounatsou, Penelope, Poda JN, Utzinger J, Walz Y, N'Goran EK, Raso G, Vounatsou P, Dech S, Wegmann M   +32 more
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Insights from quantitative and mathematical modelling on the proposed WHO 2030 goal for schistosomiasis [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Gates Open Research, 2019
Schistosomiasis remains one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) impacting millions of people around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently proposed a goal of elimination as a public health problem (EPHP) for schistosomiasis to be ...
NTD Modelling Consortium Schistosomiasis Group
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Late cutaneous schistosomiasis representing an isolated skin manifestation of Schistosoma mansoni infection [PDF]

, 2000
Ectopic late cutaneous schistosomiasis is usually preceded or accompanied by visceral schistosomiasis infection. Our patient presented the very rare case of late cutaneous schistosomiasis as an isolated skin manifestation.
Korting, Hans Christian, Schaller, M., Kick, G., G. Kick, M. Schaller, H.C. Korting   +5 more
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Study and implementation of urogenital schistosomiasis elimination in Zanzibar (Unguja and Pemba islands) using an integrated multidisciplinary approach [PDF]

, 2012
: BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a parasitic infection that continues to be a major public health problem in many developing countries being responsible for an estimated burden of at least 1.4 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in Africa ...
Colley Daniel G, Knopp, S., Fenwick, A., Albonico Marco, Khalfan A Mohammed, Fenwick Alan, Ali Said M, David Rollinson, Alan Fenwick, Khamis I, Gouvras Anouk, I Simba Khamis, Stefanie Knopp, Gouvras, A., Utzinger Jürg, Marco Albonico, Anouk Gouvras, Savioli, L., Albonico, M., Savioli Lorenzo, Jürg Utzinger, Bobbie Person, Rollinson David, Ali, S. M., Shaali M Ame, Person, B., Daniel G Colley, Person Bobbie, Utzinger, J., Ame, S. M., Mohammed, K. A., Rollinson, D., Khamis, I. S., Lorenzo Savioli, Knopp Stefanie, Said M Ali, Mohammed Khalfan A, Ame Shaali M, Colley, D. G., Gouvras, Anouk, Utzinger, Jürg, Albonico, Marco, Ali, Said M, Fenwick, Alan, Rollinson, David, Person, Bobbie, Mohammed, Khalfan A, Khamis, I Simba, Savioli, Lorenzo, Ame, Shaali M, Colley, Daniel G, Knopp, Stefanie   +51 more
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Health access livelihood framework reveals potential barriers in the control of schistosomiasis in the Dongting Lake area of Hunan Province, China [PDF]

, 2013
Background:Access to health care is a major requirement in improving health and fostering socioeconomic development. In the People's Republic of China (P.R.
Utzinger, Jürg, Li, Y.S., Shui-Yuan Xiao, Dong-Bao Yu, Utzinger Jürg, Yue-Sheng Li, Yu Dong-Bao, Julie Balen, Zheng-Yuan Zhao, Xiao, S.Y., Zhao-Chun Liu, Xiao Shui-Yuan, Balen, Julie, Xiao, Shui-Yuan, Zhao, Zheng-Yuan, Jürg Utzinger, Zhao Zheng-Yuan, Li, Yue-Sheng, Giovanna Raso, McManus, Donald P., Balen Julie, Raso, Giovanna, Donald P McManus, Liu Zhao-Chun, Utzinger, J., Liu, Z.C., Raso, G., Li Yue-Sheng, Liu, Zhao-Chun, McManus, D.P., Utzinger, Juerg, Yu, Dong-Bao, Raso Giovanna, Balen, J., McManus Donald P., Yu, D.B., Zhao, Z.Y.   +36 more
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Schistosomiasis Japonica Control in Domestic Animals: Progress and Experiences in China

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
Schistosomiasis japonica, caused by Schistosoma japonicum, is an endemic, zoonotic parasitic disease. Domestic animals, particularly bovines, are thought to play an important role in transmission of the disease. Historically, China was the country mostly
Zhiguo Cao, Zhiguo Cao, Yinyin Huang, Tianping Wang   +3 more
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