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Developing a comprehensive response for treatment of children under 6 years of age with schistosomiasis: research and development of a pediatric formulation of praziquantel

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2017
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by blood flukes. The disease is caused by an inflammatory reaction to parasite eggs retained in the liver, bladder and reproductive organs.
Jutta Reinhard-Rupp, Katharina Klohe
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Survey and Diagnostic Challenges after Transmission-Stop: Confirming Elimination of Schistosomiasis haematobium in Morocco

Journal of Parasitology Research, 2020
Clinical cases of Moroccan residents have been recorded since 2004, indicating successful interruption of transmission of S. haematobium infection at national level.
Amarir Fatima, Balahbib Abdelaali, Paul L. A. M. Corstjens, Sadak Abderrahim, Adlaoui El Bachir, Rhajaoui Mohamed   +5 more
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Evaluation of a real-time PCR assay for diagnosis of schistosomiasis japonica in the domestic goat

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Schistosomiasis japonica is an infectious disease caused by Schistosoma japonicum that seriously endangers human health. Domestic animals have important roles in disease transmission and goats are considered a primary reservoir host and source
Qinghong Guo, Cheng Chen, Keke Zhou, Yugang Li, Laibao Tong, Yongcheng Yue, Kerou Zhou, Jinming Liu, Zhiqiang Fu, Jiaojiao Lin, Jiaxi Zhao, Pengxiang Sun, Yang Hong   +12 more
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Opportunities and challenges for modelling epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics in a multihost, multiparasite system: Zoonotic hybrid schistosomiasis in West Africa [PDF]

, 2017
Multihost multiparasite systems are evolutionarily and ecologically dynamic, which presents substantial trans‐disciplinary challenges for elucidating their epidemiology and designing appropriate control.
Borlase, A, Rudge, J W, Webster, J P
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Schistosomiasis vaccines [PDF]

Human Vaccines, 2011
Schistosomiasis is a major neglected tropical disease of public health importance to a billion people. An estimated 200 million people are currently infected; an additional 779 million individuals are at risk to acquire the infection in 74 countries.
Afzal A, Siddiqui, Bilal A, Siddiqui, Lisa, Ganley-Leal   +2 more
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Schistosomiasis - assessing progress towards the 2020 and 2025 global goals

New England Journal of Medicine, 2019
Background With the vision of "a world free of schistosomiasis", the World Health Organization (WHO) has set ambitious goals, by 2020 and 2025, for, respectively, the control and elimination as a public health problem (EPHP) of this debilitating disease.
A. Deol, F. Fleming, Beatriz Calvo-Urbano, M. Walker, Victor Bucumi, Issa Gnandou, E. Tukahebwa, S. Jemu, U. Mwingira, Abdulhakeem Alkohlani, M. Traoré, E. Ruberanziza, S. Touré, M. Basáñez, M. French, J. Webster   +15 more
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Schistosomiasis

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2012
Human schistosomiasis is a common blood fluke infection in the tropics and subtropics. The organism requires a specific fresh water snail intermediate as host and this determines its geographical distribution. Humans become infected following water exposure, with rural communities and children having the highest burden of disease.
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A cost-effective strategy for identifying Angiostrongylus spp. larvae in Achatina fulica: combined morphological and molecular biology

Parasites & Vectors
Background The detection of Angiostrongylus spp. larvae in intermediate host snails is a critical epidemiological investigation, essential for the effective control of disease outbreaks. Compared to molecular biological detection methods, lung microscopy,
Ling Jiang, Tianmei Li, Yingrui Jiang, Yuhua Liu, Shaorong Chen, Hongkun Liu, Wen Fang, Shenhua Zhao, Rong Li, Yunhai Guo   +9 more
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Immunodiagnostic Methods: What Is Their Role in Areas of Low Endemicity?

The Scientific World Journal, 2012
Worldwide Schistosomiasis mansoni continues to be a serious public health problem. Over the past decades, control programmes have made remarkable progress in reducing S.
Rafaella Fortini Queiroz Grenfell, Vanessa Silva-Moraes, Diana Taboada, Ana Carolina Alves de Mattos, Ana Karine Sarvel de Castro, Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho   +5 more
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Prevalensi Serkaria Schistosoma japonicum pada Keong Oncomelania hupensis lindoensis, Kepadatan Keong, dan Daerah Fokus, di Daerah Endemis, Indonesia

Jurnal Vektor Penyakit, 2022
Schistosomiasis in Indonesia is caused by the trematode worm S. japonicum, with the snail Oncomelania hupensis lindoensis as the intermediate host. To eliminate schistosomiasis by 2020, cross-sectoral schistosomiasis control is carried out, including ...
Hayani Anastasia, Junus Widjaja, Samarang Samarang, Yuyun Srikandi, Risti Risti, Ade Kurniawan   +5 more
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