Reconciling disease risk with livelihood needs in high schistosomiasis transmission settings
Collecting water directly from a lake in Senegal. Photo credit: Andrea Lund. Oftentimes in this...
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Category: schistosomiasis
Schistosomiasis… coming to a river near you
(Image source: flickr) Background on schistosomiasis Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever or...
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How to effectively deliver drugs on a mass scale
Narayanpur Health Post, Dang Valley: medications stored in the health facility. Supplies of...
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Do schistosomes practice the art of host-manipulation?
Biomphalaria snail shedding schistosome cercariae into the water. Copyright Trustees of the...
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New focus on intestinal schistosomiasis: Emergence of Biomphalaria snails and transmission of Schistosoma mansoni in Lake Malawi
Schistosoma mansoni egg. Source: Centre for Disease Control Background to schistosomes and snails...
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Modelling for policy-driven schistosomiasis questions: Informing treatment guidelines, and monitoring and evaluation activities
Child fishing in a lake in Montepuez, Mozambique. Credit to Dr Anna E Phillips. Schistosomiasis...
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Time to highlight the importance of Male Genital Schistosomiasis in Malawi
Dr Seke carrying out an ultrasonography relieving a small hydrocele As a medical doctor working in...
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The sex lives of schistosomes; complexed mixing of genomes
Diagrammatic of how schistosome mating experiments were conducted in the laboratory In 2009, the...
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