Sentences with phrase «schistosomiasis in»

This article describes the first reported cases of canine schistosomiasis in the Midwest and the first reported case of intestinal intussusception secondary to schistosomiasis.

The purpose of this article is to report the presence of naturally occurring canine schistosomiasis in Kansas and to provide clinical details regarding 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.

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

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

These include wildlife, domestic animals and humans — mostly children — who are commonly affected by schistosomiasis in tropical parts of the world.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Upon graduating in 1975, I returned to Malawi, where I was eventually employed by the schistosomiasis control programme of the Ministry of Health in 1979.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Biologists in Britain say that they have evidence that the parasite Schistosoma mansoni, which causes schistosomiasis, can develop resistance to the drug praziquantel.

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 %.

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.

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.»

«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.

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

«Progress in understanding immune response in severe 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.

«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.»

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].

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

Dr Jane Wilson - Howarth organised a survey of school children in Madagascar to identify and treat those with schistosomiasis and other worm infestations.

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

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).