Synonyms
Examples for "schistosomiasis"
Examples for "schistosomiasis"
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However, no association between night soil and schistosomiasis was observed in 2010.
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Risk factors for schistosomiasis were assessed by administering a questionnaire to adults.
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Advanced liver fibrosis and portal hypertension due to chronic schistosomiasis are irreversible.
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Though common in tropical regions, schistosomiasis was absent around Lake Malawi until recently.
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Background: In Mozambique, schistosomiasis is highly endemic across the whole country.
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There's been an outbreak of bilharzia at a boarding school near Bremer.
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Most Africans from the lowveld have weak stomachs from having been infected with bilharzia.
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This water brings disease - bilharzia caused by parasitic worms and diarrhoea which can kill babies.
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The Nile appeared ahead, the great umbilical of the continent, the giver-taker, provider of flood and fertility, of commerce and bilharzia.
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She responded by saying "drinking from the Nile will get me schistosomiasis" - a disease commonly known as bilharzia.
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Some 280,000 people die from snail fever in Africa alone each year.
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El-Sayed led the team that sequenced the Schistosoma mansoni, one of the two major parasites that cause snail fever.
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Schistosomiasis or snail fever, which can cause deadly blood loss, affects hundreds of thousands of people in Yemen, for example.
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They included " snail fever", or schistosomiasis, which is caused by a parasite and leaves people so weak they can't work.
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Although older children aged 9-11 years had less anemia, they had more detectable malaria, Schistosoma infection, hookworm, and proportionately more non-IDA.
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These findings are discussed with regard to current understanding of human immune responses to schistosome infection.
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Protective immunity against human schistosome infection develops slowly, for reasons that are not yet fully understood.
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Hepatic fibrosis is the main cause of increased morbidity and mortality in humans with schistosome infection.
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Splenomegaly is a characteristic symptom of schistosome infection, and splenic abnormality may promote the progression of hepatic fibrosis.
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Whether the treatment will impact upon the offspring's responses on exposure to primary schistosome infection remains to be elucidated.
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Schistosome infection begins with the penetration of cercariae through healthy unbroken host skin.
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Background: Schistosome infections are often clinically silent, but some individuals develop severe pathological reactions.
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These assays and tools also have future potential for use in detection of schistosome infections in humans and livestock.
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Schistosome infection of these patients and controls was measured by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay that detected circulating anodic antigen in serum.
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However, responses to schistosome infections, and candidate vaccines, are likely to be different among people from endemic settings compared to schistosome-naïve Dutch volunteers.
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The ability of the host to modulate the granulomatous response around ova trapped in tissues determines the severity of disease to schistosome infections.