Sentences with phrase «on schistosomiasis»

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

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.

The stakes are high: more than 70 countries affected by schistosomiasis rely heavily on praziquantel, which usually works after just one dose and against all species of schistosome worms.

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.

Insecticides being sprayed on coffee plants in Uganda, a country with endemic 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.

Attempts to control schistosomiasis by focusing on the snail hosts date to the 1950s, but earlier efforts involved either molluscicides — poisons — or the introduction of non-host snail species to eat or compete with the hosts.

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.