Sentences with phrase «for schistosomiasis»

All dogs treated specifically for schistosomiasis fully recovered.

While a drug called praziquantel is an effective treatment, there is no vaccination for schistosomiasis, and those who've had it develop no immunity.

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.

«New process may lead to vaccine for schistosomiasis.»

So if, for example, public health officials are in a community handing out bed nets, it could make sense to also treat for schistosomiasis because of the down - the - road benefit of reducing the risk of malaria.»

The findings identify what looks like a «strong risk factor» for schistosomiasis, says Joanne Webster, a parasitologist at Imperial College London who was not involved.

The combination of new habitat from irrigation and runoff of pesticides may be a «perfect storm» for schistosomiasis where agriculture is intensifying in the developing world, Rohr says.

Not exact matches

Keynote speaker Emmitt Jolly, a schistosomiasis researcher, noted that he was the son of a preacher and janitor, and worked in Alabama cotton fields for 2 years as a young man, but was still able to become a professor at Case Western Reserve University here.

After filling each with 800 liters of pond water, they added two species of snails that spread the schistosomiasis parasite, algae for the snails to eat, and two kinds of predators — crayfish and water bugs.

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.

Recent genomic advances are contributing to our understanding of the emergence and spread of a multidrug - resistant cholera strain [78], for example, and helping to identify variants that might account for differences in host susceptibility to other waterborne infections such as schistosomiasis [79], [80].

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].

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.

As I mentioned earlier, a little somethin' called «schistosomiasis» is a profoundly strong risk factor for developing colon cancer and rectal cancer.