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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.
Agba Ikenna, Dr. Matthias, Chimezie Remigius, Onyirioha, Ezera, Agwu, Nwobu Obiora, Dr. Gilbert, Ohihoin Abuovbo, Aidevbo, Okpala Obi, Herbert   +5 more
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Acute schistosomiasis mansoni: revisited and reconsidered [PDF]

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2010
Acute schistosomiasis is a systemic hypersensitivity reaction against the migrating schistosomula and eggs. A variety of clinical manifestations appear during the migration of schistosomes in humans: cercarial dermatitis, fever, pneumonia, diarrhoea, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, skin lesions, liver abscesses, brain tumours and myeloradiculopathy ...
J. Lambertucci
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La schistosomiasis mansoni en Venezuela [PDF]

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 1943
EI joven profesor de clínica médica de la Universidad de Venezuela, para ingresar a la Academia de Medicina, presentó como trabajo inaugural un tratado sabre la Schistosomiasis venezolana par el S. mansoni. El estudio ha sido editado en un libro de 225 páginas con 196 referencias bibliográficas.
Jaramillo Rodríguez
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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
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Effects of Water Source, Sanitation and Hygiene on the Prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni among School Age Children in Jawe District, Northwest Ethiopia

Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2020
Background: Intestinal schistosomiasis is a disease caused by infection with one of the blood flukes called Schistosoma mansoni. The distribution of Schistosoma mansoni infection is high in Sub-Saharan Africa due to water source, sanitation and hygiene ...
Tadesse HAILU, Wondemagegn MULU, Bayeh ABERA   +2 more
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Persistent Vulvar Itch Unresponsive to Treatment: A Case of Vulvar Schistosomiasis Caused by Schistosoma mansoni and a Brief Review of Literature

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background. Vulvar schistosomiasis is a female genital schistosomiasis (FGS), which occurs because of the damage caused by the presence of schistosome ova within the vulva. FGS is mostly misdiagnosed as a sexually transmitted infection.
Anthony Gyening-Yeboah, Solomon E. Quayson   +1 more
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Environmental Drivers and Potential Distribution of Schistosoma mansoni Endemic Areas in Ethiopia

Microorganisms, 2021
In Ethiopia, human schistosomiasis is caused by two species of schistosome, Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium, with the former being dominant in the country, causing infections of more than 5 million people and more than 37 million at risk of ...
Keerati Ponpetch, Berhanu Erko, Teshome Bekana, Tadesse Kebede, Di Tian, Yang Yang, Song Liang   +6 more
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Pseudothrombocytopenia in schistosomiasis mansoni [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011
We wish to communicate the case of a young patient with schistosomiasis mansoni and pseudothrombocytopenia. Failure to recognize pseudothrombocytopenia (PTCP) leads to unnecessary diagnostic tests, unnecessary therapies such as steroid administration and splenectomy, delay in treatment and unwarranted exposure to transfusion-related complications ...
Lambertucci, José Roberto, Duani, Helena, Prata, Pedro Henrique, Voieta, Izabela   +3 more
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Praziquantel: its use in control of schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa and current research needs [PDF]

, 2009
Treatment with praziquantel (PZQ) has become virtually the sole basis of schistosomiasis control in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, and the drug is reviewed here in the context of the increasing rate that it is being used for this purpose. Attention is
A. MBAYE, Alonso, Baard, Barakat, Botros, Botros, Cioli, D. CIOLI, D. ENGELS, G. COLES, Keiser, L. A. TCHUEM TCHUENTÉ, L. PICA-MATTOCCIA, M. J. DOENHOFF, Mwanakasale, N'Goran, P. HAGAN, Pica-Mattoccia, S. BOTROS, Stohler, Utzinger, V. SOUTHGATE, Van Wyk   +22 more
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Esquistossomose mansônica em vesícula seminal Schistosomiasis mansoni in the seminal vesicle

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2007
Em regiões endêmicas, a esquistossomose mansônica é responsável por uma alta taxa de morbimortalidade por doenças associadas à infestação do sistema hepático. O acometimento genital pela schistosomiasis mansoni é raro.
Eduardo José Andrade Lopes, Carlos Eduardo R. de Almeida, Modesto Jacobino   +2 more
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