Sentences with word «schistosomiasis»

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

Dams have also caused an increase in schistosomiasis in many countries, because snails live in the reservoirs and irrigation channels.

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.»

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

Medical records of dogs diagnosed with schistosomiasis from 2000 to 2009 were reviewed, and information extracted included signalment, history, clinical signs, diagnostic test results, treatment, and outcome.

The similar life cycles of the amphibian flatworm and the one that causes schistosomiasis made Rohr and his colleagues wonder whether agricultural pollution might also affect disease transmission.

* 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.

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

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.

Regulating this molecule may prevent excessive unwanted inflammation, such as that seen in severe schistosomiasis.»

Recognizing that canine schistosomiasis is present in Kansas and possibly other Midwestern states should prompt veterinarians to perform appropriate diagnostic investigation in suspect animals as the diagnosis is straight forward and relatively inexpensive.

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.

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].

Alterations in peripheral blood B cell subsets and dynamics of B cell responses during human schistosomiasis.

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.

«If you immunize people with an antigen that induces an immune response against schistosomiasis, there will likely be benefits not only in controlling the immediate infection but also a means to avoid bladder cancer.»

«We know that having schistosomiasis increases the risk of severe malaria.

I joined the WHO, first to advise on schistosomiasis control, in 1997, and in December 2000 to take a fixed - term position in TDR.

And fighting schistosomiasis requires a more holistic, multi-pronged approach — particularly now that ecosystems in the Three Gorges region have been altered.

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.

Drug - resistant schistosomiasis is unheard of but scientists fear it is possible, given the spread of strains of malaria that are drug - resistant.

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

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.

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 %.

Illnesses like schistosomiasis, Chagas disease and dengue are endemic in warmer, wetter and poorer areas of the world, often closer to the equator.

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.

«There is a very strong association between bladder cancer and a previous schistosomiasis infection.»

The achievement could help researchers disrupt the life cycle of B. glabrata and potentially eliminate schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever.

If the medical world aims to prevent schistosomiasis, then it makes sense to immunize people against the parasite, said Batt.

Population migration has introduced schistosomiasis to new areas.

His earlier work showed the importance of Th17 cells in understanding schistosomiasis.

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.

In the China Study data, schistosomiasis correlates at +89 *** with colorectal cancer mortality.

All dogs treated specifically for schistosomiasis fully recovered.

I am still interested in schistosomiasis research, but I now see it more from the angle of the «big picture.»

The Stadecker lab had previously reported that blocking Th17 cell function limits severe schistosomiasis.

Now, the decreased flow downstream from the dam is allowing the snails to breed unchecked, which has already led to a spike in schistosomiasis cases in some areas.

«New process may lead to vaccine for schistosomiasis.»

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.

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].

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.

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.

A controversial study infects people with schistosomiasis to speed up drug and vaccine development.

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.

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.