Two-year impact of praziquantel treatment for Schistosoma japonicum infection in China: re-infection, subclinical disease and fibrosis marker measurements [PDF]
, 2017 We studied a community cohort of 193 individuals exposed to endemic Schistosoma japonicum infection in the Dongting Lake region of China to assess subclinical morbidity and the 2-year benefit of curative therapy (praziquantel) administered in 1996 ...
Li, Y. +6 more
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Intestinal parasitic infections in schoolchildren in different settings of Côte d'Ivoire : effect of diagnostic approach and implications for control [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Social-ecological systems govern parasitic infections in humans. Within the frame of assessing the accuracy of a rapid diagnostic test for Schistosoma mansoni in Cote d'Ivoire, three different endemicity settings had to be identified and ...
AS Stensgaard +49 more
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Low Transmission to Elimination: Rural Development as a Key Determinant of the End-Game Dynamics of Schistosoma japonicum in China. [PDF]
, 2017 Rural development has been a critical component of China's economic miracle since the start of economic reform in the early 1980s, both benefiting from and contributing to the nation's rapid economic growth.
Liang, Song, Spear, Robert, Zhong, Bo
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Schistosomiasis control in China
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1995 After three decades' efforts, schistosomiasis japonica were controlled in one-third (4/12) of endemic provinces and 68.2 (259/380) of endemic counties throughout the country.
Hong-Chang Yuan
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Acute schistosomiasis, a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge [PDF]
, 2010 In non-endemic countries, acute (invasive) schistosomiasis (AS) is typically seen in non-immune travellers, whereas chronic schistosomiasis is more frequently diagnosed in immigrants.
Jauréguiberry, S. +2 more
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The swine flu alert: keeping Asia safe [PDF]
, 2009 After years of concern about H5N1 bird flu, the new flu causing global alarm is a pig virus of the H1N1 family. As influenza reports erupt around the world, inevitable questions are arising. Is this the big one?
Balen, J, Caballerho-Anthony, M, Chng, B
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IMMUNOLOGICAL STUDIES ON SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA
The KITAKANTO Medical Journal, 1959 The changes in serum protein components of mice infected with Schistosoma japonicum were investigated by paper-electrophoresis.1) The examination of serum protein of mice infected with S. japonicum showed an increase of total protein in early infections (3 weeks after exposure to cereariae) raching the maximum 9 weeks after the infection, decrease in ...
Shigefusa Sato +5 more
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The little we know about the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of praziquantel (racemate and R-enantiomer) [PDF]
, 2017 Praziquantel has been the mainstay of schistosomiasis control since 1984 and widely distributed since 2006 through ‘preventive chemotherapy' programmes to school-aged children or at-risk populations.
Delgado-Romero, Petra +2 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Schistosomiasis japonica is one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in China. The scarcity of effective diagnostic tools is a major factor that contributes to the high prevalence of schistosomiasis japonica.
Xindong Xu +7 more
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Anti-embryonation immunity in murine schistosomiasis japonica (Philippines)
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1995 The hypothesis that granuloma modulation and disease abatement in chronic infection with Schistosoma japonicum could be ascribed to antibody-mediated effects on egg maturation and egg viability, arose from studies performed with mice in the Philippines ...
G. F. Mitchell +3 more
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