- ►nih.gov [PDF] DL Boros - Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 1989 - Am Soc Microbiol Schistosomiasis mansoni is a disease of the tropics. Ac- cording to a survey of the World Health
Organization, the disease is endemic in 51 countries, affecting about 100 million people
(169). The causative agents are digenetic trematode worms, also called blood flukes, that ... Cited by 146 - Related articles - All 5 versions
M Homeida, S Ahmed, A Dafalla, S Suliman, I Eltom … - The American journal of …, 1988 - ASTMH MAMOUN HOMEIDA,@ SAAD AHMED,@ ASSIM DAFALLA,t SUAD SULIMAN,@ ISAM
ELTOM,* THEODORE NASH,@ @iJAMES L. BENNET1I “DepartmentofMedicine. Faculty
ofMedicine, University of Khartoum, fMedical Research Council, Institute of Tropical ... Cited by 82 - Related articles - All 3 versions
LG Visser, AM Polderman, PC Stuiver - Clinical infectious diseases, 1995 - jstor.org Outbreak of Schistosomiasis Among Travelers Returning from Mali, West Africa ... LG
Visser, AM Polderman, and PC Stuiver ... From the Department of Infectious Diseases, University
Hospital of Leiden, and the Department of Parasitology, State University of Leiden, ... Cited by 66 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
DG Colley, AA Garcia, JR Lambertucci, JC Parra, N … - The American journal of …, 1986 - ASTMH Abstract. Thirty-four hospitalized patients and 12 ambulatory patients, all with he ... @atosplenicschistosomiasis
mansoni were evaluated in regard to their peripheral blood mononuclear (PBMN) cell responses
to schistosomal antigenic preparations and compared with groups of 40 patients with the ... Cited by 66 - Related articles - All 3 versions
ME Williams, S Montenegro, AL Domingues, TA … - The Journal of infectious …, 1994 - jstor.org Cytokine responses of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from humans infected with
Schisto- soma mansoni were assessed. By ELISA and ELISPOT, persons with acute and hepatosplenic
infections produced higher levels of interleukin (IL)-4 and IL-5 and higher frequencies of ... Cited by 59 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
VCW Tsang, PP Wilkins - Immunological investigations, 1997 - informahealthcare.com ABSTRACT The most efficacious and practical means of diagnosing human schistosomiasis
is based on the detection of infection-specific antibodies. Because of their high sensitivity and
specificity, antibody assays remain the most practical assays for epidemiologic studies ... Cited by 55 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
TCA Ferrari, PRR Moreira, AS Cunha - Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 2004 - Elsevier A prospective study was conducted on 63 patients with schistosomal myeloradiculopathy admitted
to a university hospital in Brazil. They were evaluated according to a protocol and treated with
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- ►nih.gov [PDF] GS Henderson, NA Nix, MA Montesano, D … - … American journal of …, 1993 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Humans chronicaly infected with Schistosoma mansoni most commonly present with the relatively
asymptomatic intestinal form of the disease, whereas a smaUl minority develop hepatosplenism
characterized by severe hepatic disease with portal hypertension. Investigation ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
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of infection were seen to involute following curative treatment of schistosomiasis. Residual scars
remained, however, and the collagentissue in thempresented morphologic evidence ofa ... Cited by 46 - Related articles - All 4 versions
MA Homeida, I El Tom, T Nash, JL Bennett - The American journal of tropical …, 1991 - ASTMH Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 45(3), 1991, pp. 360—365 Copyrigbt C 1991 by The American Society
of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ... PRAZIQUANTEL WITH THE REVERSAL OF
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