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Gaining and sustaining schistosomiasis control : study protocol and baseline data prior to different treatment strategies in five African countries [PDF]

, 2016
The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) was established in 2008 to answer strategic questions about schistosomiasis control.
W. Evan Secor, Eliézer K. N’Goran, Utzinger, Jürg, King, Charles H., Magnussen, Pascal, Secor, W. Evan, Ferro, J, Daniel G. Colley, Carl H. Campbell, Xiao-Ping Yin, Shen, Y, Christopher C. Whalen, Kinung'hi, Safari, Ye Shen, Ezeamama, Amara E., Garba, Amadou, Utzinger, J, Hamidou, A, Rathbun, S, Fenwick, A, Mwinzi, Pauline N. M., Colley, DG, Anna Phillips, Whalen, Christopher C., Diana M. S. Karanja, Olsen, A, Charles H. King, Montgomery, S, Phillips, Anna, Campbell, Carl H., Amadou Garba, Garba, A, Fenwick, Alan, Ezeamama, AE, Susan Montgomery, Colley, Daniel G., Secor, WE, He, C-L, Stephen Rathbun, Alan Fenwick, Campbell, CH, King, CH, Pascal Magnussen, Yin, X-P, Olsen, Annette, Ferro, Josefo, Sue C. Binder, Pauline N. M. Mwinzi, Magnussen, P, Karanja, Diana M. S., Amara E. Ezeamama, Chun-La He, Mwinzi, PNM, Jürg Utzinger, Annette Olsen, Binder, Sue C., Josefo Ferro, He, Chun-La, Safari Kinung’hi, Montgomery, Susan, Whalen, CC, Amina Hamidou, Binder, SC, Rathbun, Stephen, Hamidou, Amina, N'Goran, Eliézer K., Phillips, A, Shen, Ye, Karanja, DMS, Yin, Xiao-Ping, Fenwick A, Garba A, Secor WE, Campbell CH, Montgomery S, Shen Y, Binder SC, King CH, Yin XP, Utzinger J, Mwinzi PN, N'Goran EK, Magnussen P, Ferro J, Phillips A, N'Goran, EK, Colley DG, Whalen CC, Ezeamama AE, Kinung'hi S, Karanja DM, He CL, Hamidou A, Rathbun S, Olsen A, Kinung'hi, S   +95 more
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Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy of patients with advanced schistosomiasis in Hunan Province, China

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2023
Background Few studies have investigated the change in life expectancy (LE) and the healthy lifespan among patients with advanced schistosomiasis. This study was to evaluate the LE and healthy life expectancy (HLE) for patients and assess the mechanism ...
Honglin Jiang, Jie Zhou, Meng Xia, Guangping Li, Jie Di, Feng Mao, Liangqing Yu, Yu Cai, Zhengzhong Wang, Ying Xiong, Yixin Tong, Jiangfan Yin, Yue Chen, Qingwu Jiang, Yibiao Zhou   +14 more
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Community Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices Associated with Urogenital Schistosomiasis among School-Aged Children in Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania [PDF]

, 2016
Background: On the Zanzibar islands, United Republic of Tanzania, elimination of urogenital schistosomiasis is strived for in the coming years. This qualitative study aimed to better understand community knowledge, perceptions, and practices associated ...
Faiza M A'Kadir, Mohammed, Ulfat A., Khalfan A Mohammed, David Rollinson, A'Kadir, Faiza M., Rollinson, David, Ulfat A Mohammed, Person, Bobbie, Stefanie Knopp, Mohammed, Khalfan A., Jamal N Ali, Ali, Said M., Knopp, Stefanie, Said M Ali, Ali, Jamal N., Bobbie Person, A’Kadir, Faiza M.   +16 more
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All that is blood is not schistosomiasis : experiences with reagent strip testing for urogenital schistosomiasis with special consideration to very-low prevalence settings [PDF]

, 2015
Reagent strip testing for microhaematuria has long been used for community diagnosis of Schistosoma haematobium. Sensitivities and specificities are reasonable, and hence, microhaematuria can serve as a proxy for S. haematobium infection.
Eliézer K. N’Goran, Krauth, Stefanie J., Louise Y. Achi, Greter, Helena, Utzinger, Jürg, Coulibaly, Jean T., Jean T. Coulibaly, Bongo N. R. Ngandolo, Katarina Stete, N’Goran, Eliézer K., Zinsstag, Jakob, Ngandolo, Bongo N.R., Stete, Katarina, N'Goran, Eliézer K., Stefanie J. Krauth, Traoré, Seïdinan I., Helena Greter, Jakob Zinsstag, Jürg Utzinger, Coulibaly, Jean Tenena, Ngandolo, Bongo N. R., Achi, Louise Y., Seïdinan I. Traoré, Traoré SI, Achi LY, Utzinger J, N'Goran EK, Zinsstag J, Krauth SJ, Greter H, Ngandolo BN, Stete K, Coulibaly JT   +32 more
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Selecting accurate post-elimination monitoring tools to prevent reemergence of urogenital schistosomiasis in Morocco: a pilot study

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2017
Background After alleged stop of transmission of schistosomiasis and further down the line in post elimination settings, sensitive tools are required to monitor infection status to prevent potential re-emergence.
Abdelaali Balahbib, Fatima Amarir, Paul L.A.M. Corstjens, Claudia J. de Dood, Govert J. van Dam, Amina Hajli, Meryem Belhaddad, Bouchra El Mansouri, Abderrahim Sadak, Mohamed Rhajaoui, El Bachir Adlaoui   +10 more
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Bayesian spatial analysis of a national urinary schistosomiasis questionnaire to assist geographic targeting of schistosomiasis control in Tanzania, East Africa. [PDF]

, 2008
Spatial modelling was applied to self-reported schistosomiasis data from over 2.5 million school students from 12,399 schools in all regions of mainland Tanzania.
Blair, L., Nyandindi, U, Fenwick, A., Clements, A.C.A., Fenwick, A, Blair, L, Clements, ACA, Nyandindi, U., Brooker, S, Brooker, S.   +9 more
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Sustaining control of schistosomiasis mansoni in moderate endemicity areas in western Côte d'Ivoire : a SCORE study protocol [PDF]

, 2014
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that occurs in the tropics and subtropics. The mainstay of control is preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel. In Africa, an estimated 230 million people require preventive chemotherapy.
Assaré, Rufin K., Utzinger, Jürg, Coulibaly, Jean T., Ouattara, Mamadou, N'Goran, Eliézer K., N'Guessan, Nicaise A., Meïté, Aboulaye, Knopp, Stefanie, Yapi, Ahoua, Yao, Patrick K., Tian-Bi, Yves-Nathan T., Fenwick, Alan, Tian-Bi YN, Knopp S, Assaré RK, Yapi A, Fenwick A, Utzinger J, N'Guessan NA, N'Goran EK, Ouattara M, Meïté A, Coulibaly JT, Yao PK   +23 more
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Impact of the National Wetland Park in the Poyang Lake Area on Oncomelania hupensis, the Intermediate Host of Schistoma japonicum

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
In this study, we aimed to understand the influence of ecotourism on the distribution of Oncomelania hupensis and to provide a scientific basis for formulating effective snail control methods in tourism development areas.
Zhaojun Li, Yusong Wen, Dandan Lin, Fei Hu, Qin Wang, Yinlong Li, Jing Zhang, Kexing Liu, Shizhu Li   +8 more
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Uptake of mass drug administration programme for schistosomiasis control in Koome Islands, Central Uganda. [PDF]

, 2015
INTRODUCTION: Schistosomiasis is one of the neglected tropical diseases targeted for elimination in Uganda through the Mass Drug Administration (MDA) programme.
Nuwaha, Fred, Bagonza, James, Fred Nuwaha, James Bagonza (716006), Tuhebwe Doreen, Yeka, Adoke, Doreen Tuhebwe, Yeka Adoke, Elliott Alison M., Elizabeth Ekirapa Kiracho (716007), Kiracho Elizabeth Ekirapa, Bagonza James, Kiracho, Elizabeth Ekirapa, Doreen Tuhebwe (716005), Nuwaha Fred, Alison M Elliott, Alison M. Elliott (114054), Adoke Yeka, Elliott, Alison M, Elizabeth Ekirapa Kiracho, Adoke Yeka (18017), Tuhebwe, Doreen, James Bagonza, Fred Nuwaha (169425)   +23 more
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Determining treatment needs at different spatial scales using geostatistical model-based risk estimates of schistosomiasis [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: After many years of neglect, schistosomiasis control is going to scale. The strategy of choice is preventive chemotherapy, that is the repeated large-scale administration of praziquantel (a safe and highly efficacious drug) to at-risk ...
Utzinger Jürg, Vounatsou Penelope, Schur, N., Vounatsou, P., Utzinger, J., Schur Nadine, Jürg Utzinger, Penelope Vounatsou, Nadine Schur, Schur N, Utzinger J, Vounatsou P   +11 more
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