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The cost of a disease targeted for elimination in Brazil: the case of schistosomiasis mansoni [PDF]

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2019
BACKGROUND Schistosomiasis mansoni is a poverty-related parasitic infection that has a variety of clinical manifestations. We consider the disability and deaths caused by schistosomiasis unacceptable for a tool-ready disease.
Gilmara Lima Nascimento, Helio Milani Pegado, Ana Lúcia Coutinho Domingues, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, Alexander Itria, Luciane Nascimento Cruz, Maria Regina Fernandes de Oliveira   +6 more
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Fecal occult blood and fecal calprotectin as point-of-care markers of intestinal morbidity in Ugandan children with Schistosoma mansoni infection. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Calprotectin is a calcium-binding cytoplasmic protein found in neutrophils and increasingly used as a marker of bowel inflammation. Fecal occult blood (FOB) is also a dependable indicator of bowel morbidity.
A Diamanti, A Garba, AE Ezeamama, AL Bustinduy, AL Bustinduy, Alan Fenwick, Amaya L. Bustinduy, AR Mohamed, CC Chen, CH King, D Foell, D Wanachiwanawin, DK Rex, E Hestvik, HK Kanzaria, J Balen, J Cao, J Ndamba, J Richter, J. Russell Stothard, JC Sousa-Figueiredo, JC Sousa-Figueiredo, JC Sousa-Figueiredo, JF Friedman, José C. Sousa-Figueiredo, JP Webster, JR Stothard, JS Lehman Jr, L Guittet, L Savioli, L van Etten, M Betson, M Betson, M Komraus, M Okamoto, Martha Betson, MH El-Shabrawi, Moses Adriko, N Katz, Narcis Kabatereine, P Steinmann, Peter Steinmann, R Berni Canani, RA Sherwood, RJ Stoltzfus   +44 more
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Patients with severe schistosomiasis mansoni in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]

Infect Dis Poverty, 2021
Nigo MM, Odermatt P, Nigo DW, Salieb-Beugelaar GB, Battegay M, Hunziker PR.   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Evaluation of schistosomula lung antigen preparation and soluble egg antigen vaccines on experimental schistosomiasis mansoni. [PDF]

Parasites Hosts Dis, 2023
Aly NSM, Kim HS, Eraky MA, Kholy AAE, Ali BT, Miyoshi SI, Omar RE.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

A survey of the prevalence of Schistosomiasis among pupils in Apata and Laranto areas in Jos, Plateau State [PDF]

Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2004
Prevalence of Schistosomiasis in apparently healthy primary school pupils in Apata and Laranto areas of Jos was surveyed using 300 samples of stool and 300 samples of urine.
Okpala HO, Agwu E, Agba MI, Chimezie OR, Nwobu GO, Ohihoin AA   +5 more
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The hepatic extramedullary hematopoiesis during experimental murine Schistosomiasis mansoni. [PDF]

Front Immunol, 2022
Francisco JS, Terra MABL, Klein GCT, Dias de Oliveira BCEP, Pelajo-Machado M.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Vulvar schistosomiasis mansoni [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2008
: Prof. Jose Roberto Lambertucci. Faculdade de Medicina/UFMG. Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, 30130-100 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.Jose Roberto Lambertucci. Faculdade de Medicina/UFMG. Avenida Alfredo Balena 190, 30130-100 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.e-mail: lamber@uai.com.brRecebido para publicacao em 12/09/2008Aceito em 15/09 ...
José Roberto, Lambertucci, Izabela, Voieta, Marina, De Brot   +2 more
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Schistosoma mansoni granulomas in the skeletal striated muscles in the murine model of neuroschistosomiasis: histological findings [PDF]

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2020
Schistosomiasis mansoni presents many clinical manifestations during migration of schistosomes in their hosts, including diarrhea, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, liver abscesses, skinlesions, brain tumors and myeloradiculopathy.
Thiago Andre Alves Fidelis, Geraldo Brasileiro-Filho, Patricia M Parreiras, Paulo Marcos Z Coelho, Neusa Araujo, Marco Vinicius Chaud, Denicezar Angelo Baldo, Nelson Brancaccio dos Santos, José Roberto Lambertucci   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of subcurative praziquantel treatment on life-history traits and trade-offs in drug-resistant Schistosoma mansoni [PDF]

, 2016
Natural selection acts on all organisms, including parasites, to maximise reproductive fitness. Drug resistance traits are often associated with life-history costs in the absence of treatment.
Viana, Mafalda, Faust, Christina L., Haydon, Dan T., Webster, Joanne P., Lamberton, Poppy H.L.   +4 more
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Osteopontin Is Upregulated in Human and Murine Acute Schistosomiasis Mansoni. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
Symptomatic acute schistosomiasis mansoni is a systemic hypersensitivity reaction against the migrating schistosomula and mature eggs after a primary infection. The mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of acute schistosomiasis are not fully elucidated.
Thiago Almeida Pereira, Wing-Kin Syn, Frederico Figueiredo Amâncio, Pedro Henrique Diniz Cunha, Julia Fonseca Morais Caporali, Guilherme Vaz de Melo Trindade, Elisângela Trindade Santos, Márcia Maria Souza, Zilton Araújo Andrade, Rafal P Witek, William Evan Secor, Fausto Edmundo Lima Pereira, José Roberto Lambertucci, Anna Mae Diehl   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source