Sentences with phrase «disease schistosomiasis»

Seventeen healthy students in the Netherlands have agreed to be infected with parasitic worms for eight weeks so that scientists can research a vaccine for the disease schistosomiasis.

* Silvia N. Kariuki, a graduate of the University of Chicago, became interested in science watching her parents work to eradicate the parasitic disease schistosomiasis in her native Kenya.

G.W.'s Davis is part of a project researching the disease schistosomiasis (a.k.a. snail fever or swimmer's itch), a blood parasite transmitted to humans by snails; people can get it by swimming or wading in contaminated fresh water when infected snails release larvae that can penetrate the skin.

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Tropical diseases like guinea worm, trachoma, and schistosomiasis, which infect millions of people annually, are found most often in places with unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation and hygiene.

Eve's research is focused on malaria, schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.

China's Ministry of Health, meanwhile, is trying to control schistosomiasis infections with a combination of drugs and applications of molluscicides, pesticides that wipe out the disease's snail carriers.

Other parasitic diseases with a huge public health impact include amoebiasis (which kills 100,000 per year), leishmaniasis (60,000), and schistosomiasis (20,000).

«Further, these subtropical drylands are home to aggressive diseases such as dengue and schistosomiasis.

The winners of the prize are Maged Al - Sherbiny from Egypt, for his research on vaccines and diagnostics against hepatitis C and schistosomiasis; plant scientist Felix Dapare Dakora from Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, in South Africa for his work on legumes and soil bacteria; and Rossana Arroyo of the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of Mexico's National Polytechnic Institute, who studies trichomoniasis, a parasitic disease.

For now, the tool — a website app with a simple interface — pairs schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, with malaria and allows users to enter factors based on local conditions and political constraints to determine the outcome of integrating control measures.

Other forms of PAH can be triggered by autoimmune diseases, congenital heart defects, infections (such as schistosomiasis), and medications (such as the now - banned diet - drug combination commonly known as fen - Phen).

«We don't yet understand why mice that develop severe inflammation express about 20 times higher levels of CD209a than mice that do not develop severe disease, and we don't yet know about the role of DC - SIGN in human schistosomiasis.

An infectious diseases researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, Hotez is developing shots against diseases in poorer countries such as hookworm and schistosomiasis.

Researchers at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts and Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) have uncovered a mechanism that may help explain the severe forms of schistosomiasis, or snail fever, which is caused by schistosome worms and is one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in the world.

Although schistosomiasis is not contracted in the United States or Europe, the World Health Organization reports that this neglected tropical disease is endemic primarily in Africa, but is also found in South America, the Middle East, and Asia.

A naturally occurring protein has been discovered that shows promise as a biocontrol weapon against schistosomiasis, one of the world's most prevalent parasitic diseases, Oregon State University researchers reported today in a new study.

Cornell and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research scientists have developed a way to produce a protein antigen that may be useful as vaccine for schistosomiasis — a parasitic disease that infects millions of people, mostly in tropical and subtropical climates — according to new research in the journal Protein Expression and Purification, June 2017.

As well as malaria, we are working on other parasitic diseases including schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis — infectious diseases that affect some of the most disadvantaged people in world.

GAHI shows the geographical distribution of neglected tropical diseases transmitted by worms: soil - transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis.

Ryan has worked in a wide range of disease fields including cancer, HIV, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, anthrax, West Nile virus, leprosy, hookworm disease, schistosomiasis, chikungunya virus, and shigellosis.

These ethical and diplomatic complications are most acute for drive systems aiming to solve the most urgent humanitarian problems, including malaria, schistosomiasis, dengue, Zika, and other vector - borne and parasitic diseases.

This parasite causes schistosomiasis, an infectious disease of global importance for human and animals.

Although schistosomiasis and soil - transmitted helminthiasis affect hundreds of millions of people and account for more than 40 % of the global burden due to neglected tropical diseases, parasitic worm infections are often still neglected [1]--[3].

Tens of millions more people, mostly in poor countries, will be exposed to vector - borne diseases such as malaria, schistosomiasis and dengue fever.

He has been involved as an expert witness over a wide range of tropical and imported diseases: melioidosis, schistosomiasis, brucellosis, gastrointestinal infections, Lyme disease and malaria.