Sentences with phrase «with schistosomiasis»

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

After filling each with 800 liters of pond water, they added two species of snails that spread the schistosomiasis parasite, algae for the snails to eat, and two kinds of predators — crayfish and water bugs.

Other parasitic diseases with a huge public health impact include amoebiasis (which kills 100,000 per year), leishmaniasis (60,000), and schistosomiasis (20,000).

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.

«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.»

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.

The pathology of schistosomiasis is associated with the eggs, which are synthesized as a final consequence of male and female adults pairing.

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.