Accurate population data are crucial for understanding the spread of diseases and for the design, planning and monitoring of public heath programmes… Read more »
Researchers in Kampala and Glasgow identified key factors driving persistant S. mansoni infections in hotspot communities on the banks of Lake… Read more »
The control and elimination of Schistosomiasis is a huge project and has gained an increasing amount of manpower and financial… Read more »
Soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis are the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases. In Ethiopia alone they infect… 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 »
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