 Schistosomiasis
"Schistosomiasis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Infection with flukes (trematodes) of the genus SCHISTOSOMA. Three species produce the most frequent clinical diseases: SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM (endemic in Africa and the Middle East), SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI (in Egypt, northern and southern Africa, some West Indies islands, northern 2/3 of South America), and SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM (in Japan, China, the Philippines, Celebes, Thailand, Laos). S. mansoni is often seen in Puerto Ricans living in the United States.
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D012552
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.335.865.859
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| Concept/Terms |
Schistosomiasis- Schistosomiasis
- Schistosomiases
- Katayama Fever
- Fever, Katayama
- Bilharziasis
- Bilharziases
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Schistosomiasis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Schistosomiasis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Schistosomiasis" by people in Profiles.
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Henein L, Cody JJ, Hsieh MH. An enduring legacy of discovery: Margaret Stirewalt. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 08; 11(8):e0005714.
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Cody JJ, Ittiprasert W, Miller AN, Henein L, Mentink-Kane MM, Hsieh MH. The NIH-NIAID Schistosomiasis Resource Center at the Biomedical Research Institute: Molecular Redux. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Oct; 10(10):e0005022.
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Sokolow SH, Wood CL, Jones IJ, Swartz SJ, Lopez M, Hsieh MH, Lafferty KD, Kuris AM, Rickards C, De Leo GA. Global Assessment of Schistosomiasis Control Over the Past Century Shows Targeting the Snail Intermediate Host Works Best. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 07; 10(7):e0004794.
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Hsieh MH, Mentink-Kane MM. Smallpox and Dracunculiasis: The Scientific Value of Infectious Diseases That Have Been Eradicated or Targeted for Eradication. Is Schistosomiasis Next? PLoS Pathog. 2016 Jan; 12(1):e1005298.
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Moudgil A, Kosut J. Urinary schistosomiasis: an uncommon cause of gross hematuria in the industrialized countries. Pediatr Nephrol. 2007 Aug; 22(8):1225-7.
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