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Rapid screening for Schistosoma mansoni in western Côte d’Ivoire using a simple school questionnaire

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
The distribution of schistosomiasis is focal, so if the resources available for control are to be used most effectively, they need to be directed towards the individuals and/or communities at highest risk of morbidity from schistosomiasis.
J. Utzinger, E.K. N’Goran, Y.A. Ossey, M. Booth, M. Traoré, K.L. Lohourignon, A. Allangba, L.A. Ahiba, M. Tanner, C. Lengeler   +9 more
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Bio-indicators for the evaluation of potential risk of schistosomiasis transmission at the Apipucos reservoir, Pernambuco State

Revista Ambiente & Água, 2016
In Pernambuco, schistosomiasis is endemic in the countryside and large numbers of foci are being detected in urban areas. This paper evaluated the risk of schistosomiasis transmission in aquatic ecosystem based on biomarkers and molecular biology ...
Rodrigo Moraes Loyo*; , Constança Simões Barbosa   +1 more
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[Cerebral schistosomiasis mansoni].

Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria, 1989
This paper reports a case of cerebral schistosomiasis in pseudotumoral form, located in the cortex of the left parietal lobe, causing right hemiparesy and intracranial hypertension syndrome, diagnosed by surgical biopsy. Vascular and immunological factors are considered in regard to the physiopathogeny of neuroschistosomiasis. Emphasis is placed on the
A N, Andrade, C L, Bastos
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Glomerulonephritis in schistosomiasis mansoni: a time to reappraise.

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2010
INTRODUCTION The current prevalence of glomerulonephritis in patients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni in Brazil was evaluated. METHODS Sixty three patients (mean age 45.5 ± 11 years) attending the outpatient infectious disease clinic of a ...
V. Rodrigues, Alba Otoni, Izabela Voieta, C. Antunes, J. Lambertucci   +4 more
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Risk factors for schistosomiasis in an urban area in northern Côte d’Ivoire

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2018
Background Schistosomiasis is a water-based disease transmitted by trematodes belonging to the genus Schistosoma. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the prevalence of schistosomiasis and access to water, sanitation and hygiene ...
Richard K. M’Bra, Brama Kone, Yapi G. Yapi, Kigbafori D. Silué, Ibrahima Sy, Danielle Vienneau, Nagnin Soro, Guéladio Cissé, Jürg Utzinger   +8 more
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Substance P modulates antigen-induced, IFN-gamma production in murine Schistosomiasis mansoni. [PDF]

, 1993
Arthur Blum, Ahmed Metwali, G A Cook, R C Mathew, David E. Elliott, Janet Weinstock   +5 more
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Immune responses during human Schistosomiasis mansoni. XI. Immunologic status of patients with acute infections and after treatment.

Journal of Immunology, 1985
Sixteen patients, 8 to 30 yr of age, with acute (toxemic) phase schistosomiasis mansoni were studied immunologically within 2 to 3 mo of their exposure to Schistosoma mansoni cercariae, and were monitored after chemotherapy.
G. Gazzinelli, J. Lambertucci, N. Katz, R. Rocha, M. Lima, D. Colley   +5 more
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Can antibody conjugated nanomicelles alter the prospect of antibody targeted therapy against schistosomiasis mansoni? [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2023
Amer EI, Allam SR, Hassan AY, El-Fakharany EM, Agwa MM, Khattab SN, Sheta E, El-Faham MH.   +7 more
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Genital Schistosomiasis: A Report on Two Cases of Ovarian Carcinomas Containing Viable Eggs ofSchistosoma mansoni [PDF]

, 2014
Andressa Gonçalves Amorim, Fernanda Alves Barbosa Pagio, Rodrigo Neves Ferreira, Antônio Chambô Filho   +3 more
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Concomitant prostatic schistosomiasis and sdenocarcinoma: case report and review

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2002
The term schistosomiasis encompasses a group of infectious disorders caused by five species of the genus Schistosoma, a blood trematode of outstanding importance in tropical areas.
Basílio-de-Oliveira Carlos Alberto, Aquino Armando, Simon Eliane Francine, Eyer-Silva Walter A.   +3 more
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