Sentences with phrase «schistosomiasis infections»
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.
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«There is a very strong association between bladder cancer and a previous schistosomiasis infection.»
The areas of China that eat a lot of seaweed have very high rates of schistosomiasis infection, which is an extremely strong promoter of colorectal cancer.
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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).
«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].
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].
She provides an excellent preliminary analysis showing that schistosomiasis, a parasitic infection, confounds many of Dr. Campbell's conclusions.
He has been involved as an expert witness over a wide range of tropical and imported diseases: melioidosis, schistosomiasis, brucellosis, gastrointestinal infections, Lyme disease and malaria.