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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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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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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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Epidemiological determinants correlating hepatitis C and Schistosomiasis mansoni in one of Upper Egypt governorates

Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2018
Schistosomiasis and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are endemic diseases with high prevalence in Africa especially in Egypt. Many sociodemographic and behavioral related determinants were implicated to be associated with schistosomiasis, HCV or coinfection ...
Samah S. Abdel Gawad, Enas Yahia Abu-Sarea, Lamiaa Saleh   +2 more
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Imported Schistosomiasis: A New Public Health Challenge for China

Frontiers in Medicine, 2020
Significantly increased imported schistosomiasis cases have been reported in China as the economy grows. The aim of this study is to review and summarize the current status, clinical features, and transmission risk of imported infections of Schistosoma ...
Lei Wang, Lei Wang, Lei Wang, Xiaoying Wu, Xiaoli Li, Xiaoli Li, Xiaoli Li, Xiaoyan Zheng, Xiaoyan Zheng, Xiaoyan Zheng, Fei Wang, Fei Wang, Fei Wang, Zhiqun Qi, Zhiqun Qi, Zhiqun Qi, Minjun Huang, Minjun Huang, Minjun Huang, Yang Zou, Yang Zou, Yang Zou   +21 more
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LETTER TO EDITOR ABOUT "NEW INDEX FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF LIVER FIBROSIS IN SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI".

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2019
In the first issue of 2017we published the paper entitled “New index for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis in Schistosomiasis mansoni” (1), which describes a new score to predict the pattern of periportal fibrosis in patients with schistosomiasis mansoni ...
A. V. M. S. Barreto
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Schistosoma mansoni: a rare cause of tubal infection

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2010
S. haematobium is an important cause of urinary schistosomiasis, and symptomatic female genital infection is a common gynecological finding in areas where S. haematobium is prevalent.
C.A. Faria, J.C.J. Conceição, T.F. Valadares, B. Rodrigues, L. Carneiro   +4 more
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Sensitivity and specificity of the circulating cathodic antigen rapid urine test in the diagnosis of Schistosomiasis mansoni infection and evaluation of morbidity in a low- endemic area in Brazil.

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2017
INTRODUCTION: The Kato-Katz technique is the standard diagnostic test for Schistosoma mansoni infection in rural areas. However, the utility of this method is severely limited by the day-to-day variability in host egg excretion in the stool.
F. Ferreira, T. Fidelis, T. Pereira, Alba Otoni, Leonardo C. Queiroz, F. Amâncio, C. Antunes, J. Lambertucci   +7 more
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Impact of Schistosoma mansoni on malaria transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014
BACKGROUND:Sub-Saharan Africa harbors the majority of the global burden of malaria and schistosomiasis infections. The co-endemicity of these two tropical diseases has prompted investigation into the mechanisms of coinfection, particularly the competing ...
Martial L Ndeffo Mbah, Laura Skrip, Scott Greenhalgh, Peter Hotez, Alison P Galvani   +4 more
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