The control and elimination of Schistosomiasis is a huge project and has gained an increasing amount of manpower and financial resources. A new study… Read more »
Soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis are the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases. In Ethiopia alone they infect approximately 36… Read more »
Yesterday the World Health Organization launched a new road map to prevent, control, eliminate and eradicate a set of 20 diseases,… Read more »
Using an individual based stochastic model and data from two different age-intensity profiles of infection prevalence and… Read more »
An investigation into schistosome digestive tract development reveals that the oesophageal gland, a site of protein secretion and… Read more »
In this study, researchers explored the benefits and outcomes of different treatment strategies in reducing schistosomiasis in… Read more »
Using geostatistical models researchers evaluated the accuracy and cost-effectiveness of different survey designs in identifying… Read more »
A recent lab and field-based study investigated the amount and duration of chlorine needed to inactivate schistosome cercariae and… Read more »
Malawi is endemic for urogenital schistosomiasis, however reports of intestinal schistosomiasis have pointed to the emergence of… Read more »
Researchers from Benin and France uncovered a missing piece of the puzzle for human-cattle schistosome hybridization.
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