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Meanings of bilharziosis in inglês

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A disease in which humans are parasitized by any of three species of blood flukes: Schistosoma mansoni, S.

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Examples for "schistosomiasis"
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However, no association between night soil and schistosomiasis was observed in 2010.
Pubmed
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Risk factors for schistosomiasis were assessed by administering a questionnaire to adults.
Pubmed
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Advanced liver fibrosis and portal hypertension due to chronic schistosomiasis are irreversible.
Pubmed
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Though common in tropical regions, schistosomiasis was absent around Lake Malawi until recently.
The Guardian
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Background: In Mozambique, schistosomiasis is highly endemic across the whole country.
Pubmed
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There's been an outbreak of bilharzia at a boarding school near Bremer.
A beautiful place to die
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Most Africans from the lowveld have weak stomachs from having been infected with bilharzia.
The power of one
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This water brings disease - bilharzia caused by parasitic worms and diarrhoea which can kill babies.
The Guardian
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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.
Acts of faith
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She responded by saying "drinking from the Nile will get me schistosomiasis" - a disease commonly known as bilharzia.
BBC
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Some 280,000 people die from snail fever in Africa alone each year.
Reuters
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El-Sayed led the team that sequenced the Schistosoma mansoni, one of the two major parasites that cause snail fever.
Reuters
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Schistosomiasis or snail fever, which can cause deadly blood loss, affects hundreds of thousands of people in Yemen, for example.
Reuters
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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.
Reuters