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The Global Schistosomiasis Alliance
The Global Schistosomiasis Alliance (GSA) is an all-inclusive coalition to mobilise the growing momentum to control and eliminate schistosomiasis. It is constituted as a diverse but representative partnership of public health programmes, academic and research ...
Praziquantel is effective at treating infections with all major Schistosoma species.
Fast Facts
Schistosoma haematobium] [Schistosoma intercalatum] [Schistosoma japonicum] [Schistosoma mansoni] [Schistosoma mekongi]
Website accessed Feb 6, 2025
La esquistosomiasis es una infección parasitaria crónica causada por gusanos y es muy frecuente en poblaciones rurales y empobrecidas. En las Américas, la única especie parasitaria es Schistosoma mansoni, que se asocia con la esquistosomiasis intestinal. El principal factor de riesgo para infect...
Issue Brief 45 NTDs Part 3 : Schistosomiasis
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In this subsequent part of the issue brief on the NTD Toolbox you will learn about general strategies, roadmaps, key treatment guidelines, reports, and training material on Schistosomiasis
Highlighted Diagnostic Resources on Schistosomiasis
Schistosomiasis situational analyses, core implementation data and trend data are provided through direct access to the interactive reports.
Website accessed Feb. 6, 2025
Schistosomiasis is a chronic parasitic infection caused by worms. It is most common in rural and impoverished populations. In the Americas, the parasite species is Schistosoma mansoni, which is associated with intestinal schistosomiasis. The main risk factor for infection is exposure through househo...
The collection provides information in English and French
Schistosome snail resource (SSR) is Wellcome Trust funded, open access biomedical resource that aims to generate and make freely available live schistosome life-cycle stages, snail intermediate hosts and related material for schistosomiasis research.
The consortium is an international public-private partnership that aims to reduce the global disease burden of schistosomiasis by addressing the medical needs of infected children between the ages of 3 months and 6 years. By doing so, we hope to contribute to the ongoing efforts to eliminate schisto...
Global Health Observatory (GHO) interactive graph
For communities already burdened by poverty and ravaged by scourges such as malaria and tuberculosis, the parasitic disease schistosomiasis is especially devastating. The disease weakens the body's resistance to other infections and leads to poor growth and impaired learning in children. The Carter ...
Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2024, 9(9), 222; https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed9090222
This protocol is to help researchers working with freshwater gastropods related to the transmission of schistosomes, and particularly those looking at extracting high quality intact DNA for next generation sequencing purposes. This protocol offers a general outline that can be tailored to the conten...
The Schistosomiasis Resource Center at the Biomedical Research Institute is a unique schistosomiasis research supply laboratory funded by the NIAID (NIAID-NIH)
The SRC provides Schistosoma life cycle reagents free of charge to scientists, students, biotech and independent investigators in the U.S...
Weekly epidemiological record WER9948-707-717
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