Schistosomiasis has been of concern to local health authorities for most of the last century, and in spite of a lack of effective chemotherapy, the disease was dealt with quite effectively in many endemic countries by snail control and environmental management [1]. Much of this work was reported in journals prior to the electronic era but, sadly, seems to have been subsequently ignored. For man...

BACKGROUND Human schistosomiasis is a chronic parasitic disease of poverty caused by the cercariae of digenetic trematodes of the genus Schistosoma. The disease is a major source of morbidity and mortality in 77 low- and middle-income countries in the tropics where 700 million people are at risk. In a bid to provide relevant epidemiological information to boost control of urogenital schistosomi...

Schistomiasis is a disease caused by digenetic trematodes that belong to the family Schistosomatoidae. Five species of Schistosomes are involved in human infection. The three principal agents are Schistosoma mansoni and S. japonicum which are responsible for intestinal schistosomiasis and S. haematobium, the aetiologic agent of urinary schistosomiasis. The other two species responsible for inte...

Effective interruption of the Schistosoma life cycle is essential to blocking the parasite’s transmission, and thus truly preventing human schistosomiasis over the long term. Our current mass treatment campaigns were expected to limit transmission by reducing environmental contamination with parasite eggs. However, the process of transmission has proven to be very focal and highly efficient, su...

Ended is the Ethiopian name for Phytolacca dodecandra, a full shrub closely related to the American pokeweed, Phytolacca americana. The young green leaves and shoots are edible protein sources after they are boiled and the water is discarded. An extract of saponin from P. dodecandra berries can be used as a molluscicide in the control of schistosomiasis and other snail-borne diseases. The berri...

During the period between January 1999 and December 2000, the distribution and seasonal patterns of amphistome infections in cattle in the highveld and lowveld communal grazing areas of Zimbabwe were determined through monthly coprological examination. Cattle faecal samples were collected from 12 and nine dipping sites in the highveld and lowveld communal grazing areas, respectively. Patterns o...

During the period between January 1999 and December 2000, the distribution and seasonal patterns of Fasciola gigantica infections in cattle in the highveld and lowveld communal grazing areas of Zimbabwe were determined through monthly coprological examination. Cattle faecal samples were collected from 12 and nine dipping sites in the highveld and lowveld communal grazing areas respectively. Pat...

Despite decades of prevention and control efforts, the water-borne parasitic disease schistosomiasis remains endemic in 74 of the world’s developing nations. Five species of the Schistosoma trematode are pathogenic to humans; S. japonicum is the infective agent of schistosomiasis in China and the Philippines. The purpose of this research is to develop a sensitive and specific technique for the ...

Halting the transmission of O. viverrini is crucial to preventing cases cholangiocarcinoma, yet there no consensus on best strategies for large-scale parasite control.Quantitative modelling can provide insights and guide control programmes more rapidly using fewer resources than clinical trials. To give reliable output, models depend making accurate assumptions parameters inferred from relevant...