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Category : Schistosomiasis
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Egyptian Journal of Bilharziasis
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Category : Schistosomiasis
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Publisher:
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Category : Schistosomiasis
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Egyptian Journal of Schistosomiasis and Endemic Infectious Diseases
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Egyptian Journal of Bilharziasis
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Category : Schistosomiasis
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Category : Schistosomiasis
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Human Schistosomiasis
Author: Peter Jordan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Human schistosomes (blood flukes) are digenetic trematodes that spend the adult part of their life cycle in humans and a further part in aquatic snails. Despite advances in chemotherapy, schistosomiasis is still a significant infection in the populations of several countries in the tropics. This book replaces a previous volume Schistosomiasis: Epidemiology, Treatment and Control (Heinemann, 1982) by Jordan and Webbe. All chapters have been rewritten by internationally renowned workers. Ultrasound, expected to aid identification of early disease in the field and increase our understanding of its evolution, is discussed in a new chapter. Others, each with an extensive bibliography, review the parasites and their snail intermediate hosts, epidemiology, clinical manifestations and pathology, diagnosis, immunology, drugs and patient management and control. Limitations of the role of chemotherapy in morbidity control are discussed and the need for flexibility in control interventions in the varied epidemiological situations is stressed. An interdisciplinary approach may be necessary to reduce transmission by appropriate measures against the snail intermediate host, and to implement public health measures, including the provision of safe water (with many other medical and social benefits) and health education. This comprehensive volume is for public health workers involved in the prevention and control of the disease, for physicians, and for students and teachers of many disciplines. It also provides a reference book for health planners, social anthropologists, health educators, water and sanitary engineers and others engaged in improving health in the tropics. Physicians in temperate countries will also find it a useful reference book as schistosomiasis, often acute, is being diagnosed more frequently in those returning from holidays in endemic areas.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Human schistosomes (blood flukes) are digenetic trematodes that spend the adult part of their life cycle in humans and a further part in aquatic snails. Despite advances in chemotherapy, schistosomiasis is still a significant infection in the populations of several countries in the tropics. This book replaces a previous volume Schistosomiasis: Epidemiology, Treatment and Control (Heinemann, 1982) by Jordan and Webbe. All chapters have been rewritten by internationally renowned workers. Ultrasound, expected to aid identification of early disease in the field and increase our understanding of its evolution, is discussed in a new chapter. Others, each with an extensive bibliography, review the parasites and their snail intermediate hosts, epidemiology, clinical manifestations and pathology, diagnosis, immunology, drugs and patient management and control. Limitations of the role of chemotherapy in morbidity control are discussed and the need for flexibility in control interventions in the varied epidemiological situations is stressed. An interdisciplinary approach may be necessary to reduce transmission by appropriate measures against the snail intermediate host, and to implement public health measures, including the provision of safe water (with many other medical and social benefits) and health education. This comprehensive volume is for public health workers involved in the prevention and control of the disease, for physicians, and for students and teachers of many disciplines. It also provides a reference book for health planners, social anthropologists, health educators, water and sanitary engineers and others engaged in improving health in the tropics. Physicians in temperate countries will also find it a useful reference book as schistosomiasis, often acute, is being diagnosed more frequently in those returning from holidays in endemic areas.
Parasitic helminths and zoonoses in Africa
Author: P. Craig
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940113054X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Helminths include one of the most diverse and geographically widespread groups of parasites which infect humans and animals. About 100 species have been reported from humans, usually producing asymptomatic infection or mild symptoms. However, about 20 species are of public health importance causing severe or even fatal infections. In many parts of Africa parasitic helminths are responsible for enormous economic losses, hampering rural development programmes and reducing the pace of economic growth. Many parasitic helminths are either zoonoses (diseases naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals and man) or have evolved from animal parasites. The modification of the environment through wars, famine and the ever expanding and increasingly mobile human population brings people into close contact with new environments and wildlife species which makes the study and control of zoonoses of special interest and complexity. In Africa, the transmission of helminth parasites is highly influenced by the ever changing social and cultural differences between diverse groups of peoples and their interaction with wild and domestic animals. It is not surprising, therefore, that approaches to the study and control of parasitic zoonoses require intersectoral cooperation between physicians, veterinarians, parasitologists, zoologists, demographers, anthropologists, engineers and economists to provide the breadth of knowledge and expertise required to develop our understanding of these diseases and to devise methods for their control. This book provides a selective compilation of parasitic helminths, many of which are zoonoses which create important economic and public health problems in Africa.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940113054X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Helminths include one of the most diverse and geographically widespread groups of parasites which infect humans and animals. About 100 species have been reported from humans, usually producing asymptomatic infection or mild symptoms. However, about 20 species are of public health importance causing severe or even fatal infections. In many parts of Africa parasitic helminths are responsible for enormous economic losses, hampering rural development programmes and reducing the pace of economic growth. Many parasitic helminths are either zoonoses (diseases naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals and man) or have evolved from animal parasites. The modification of the environment through wars, famine and the ever expanding and increasingly mobile human population brings people into close contact with new environments and wildlife species which makes the study and control of zoonoses of special interest and complexity. In Africa, the transmission of helminth parasites is highly influenced by the ever changing social and cultural differences between diverse groups of peoples and their interaction with wild and domestic animals. It is not surprising, therefore, that approaches to the study and control of parasitic zoonoses require intersectoral cooperation between physicians, veterinarians, parasitologists, zoologists, demographers, anthropologists, engineers and economists to provide the breadth of knowledge and expertise required to develop our understanding of these diseases and to devise methods for their control. This book provides a selective compilation of parasitic helminths, many of which are zoonoses which create important economic and public health problems in Africa.
Bilharzia
Author: John Farley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521530606
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521530606
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis.
Schistosomiasis in Rural Egypt
Author: Environmental Research Laboratory (Athens, Ga.)
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Bibliography of the History of Medicine
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Human Intestinal Parasitic Infections and Environmental Health Factors in Rural Egyptian Communities
Author: Frederic DeWolfe Miller
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Category : Environmental health
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Environmental health
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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