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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Did research on bilharziasis for Rockefeller Foundation - an Egyptian disease.
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It should be noticed that urinary bilharziasis too is frequently seen in the area.
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The prevalence of bilharziasis measured by means of the hemagglutination test using a S. mansoni antigen is 28.5% in the villages.
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A small focus of intestinal bilharziasis exists in Bafia and eggs of Schistosoma mansoni are found in the feces of 18.6% of the persons studied.
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Some 280,000 people die from snailfever 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 snailfever.
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Schistosomiasis or snailfever, which can cause deadly blood loss, affects hundreds of thousands of people in Yemen, for example.
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They included " snailfever", or schistosomiasis, which is caused by a parasite and leaves people so weak they can't work.
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These findings are discussed with regard to current understanding of human immune responses to schistosomeinfection.
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Protective immunity against human schistosomeinfection 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 schistosomeinfection.
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Splenomegaly is a characteristic symptom of schistosomeinfection, 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 schistosomeinfection remains to be elucidated.
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Although older children aged 9-11 years had less anemia, they had more detectable malaria, Schistosomainfection, hookworm, and proportionately more non-IDA.
Uso de schistosomiasis en inglés
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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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The effect of concomitant schistosomiasis upon acquisition of T cell memory is unknown.
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We review the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation and treatment of schistosomiasis.
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After treatment for schistosomiasis, the viral load returned to normal levels.
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Boys had higher prevalence of self-reported schistosomiasis and BIU than girls.
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Variceal bleeding is the primary cause of death in hepatic schistosomiasis.
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Urogenital schistosomiasis is an important public health issue in Zanzibar.
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Introduction: The trematode infection schistosomiasis affects at least 200 million people in endemic areas.
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Conclusion: Age-gender patterns of urinary schistosomiasis were consistent in different geographical areas of Tanzania.
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Most individuals clear schistosomiasis with a single course of therapy.
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Broad-based ultrasound screening has allowed better definition of age-specific disease risks in urinary schistosomiasis.
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Thus, other mechanisms may be more important in the regulation of immunopathology in schistosomiasis.