Sentences with phrase «of schistosomiasis»

But their findings come at a time when an epidemic of schistosomiasis in Senegal has proved difficult to treat.

After an M.Sc. - taught course at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, I went back, in 1985, to the United States to do my Ph.D. on the diagnosis of schistosomiasis at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

My position also entails working as the co-ordinator of schistosomiasis research at TDR.

«There is just no evidence that there is a problem,» says Kenneth Mott, head of the WHO's programme of schistosomiasis control.

Senegal's outbreak of schistosomiasis has been blamed on several development projects in the basin of the Senegal River, including the building of two dams and the construction of irrigation schemes.

Rohr will study whether helping farmers switch to insecticides less toxic to prawns could lessen the burden of schistosomiasis, while maintaining food production.

An epidemiological model of schistosomiasis suggested that the increase in snail population from this typical amount of fertilizer would jack up the risk of transmission to humans by 28 %.

By killing off insect predators of worm - infested snails, they can raise the risk of schistosomiasis, the second most common parasitic disease after malaria.

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.

If clinical trials succeed, this vaccine may lead to a substantial decrease in the global number of schistosomiasis cases, which rank second only to malaria.

These may be signs of schistosomiasis.

His time in Riyadh gave him experience of brucellosis and he has also had much experience of schistosomiasis, bilharzia.

This has been of great value to me in giving me first hand experience of East African sleeping sickness and in more recent years the impact of schistosomiasis (bilharzia).

A strain from Senegal — where there is a massive epidemic of schistosomiasis — was found to be less sensitive to praziquantel than two strains from Puerto Rico and Kenya.

In other words: Is it the fiber itself that's protective against colorectal cancer, or is it the fact that the counties eating the most fiber happened to also have the lowest rates of schistosomiasis?