The past three years has seen the launch of a new World Health Organization (WHO)
neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) roadmap, together with revised control and elimination …

Schistosomiasis is the most important helminthiasis worldwide in terms of morbidity and
mortality. Most of the infections occurs in Africa, which about two thirds are caused by …

The second World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Day was celebrated on 30 January
2021. To mark the occasion, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its roadmap for …

Background Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease of global medical and
veterinary importance. As efforts to eliminate schistosomiasis as a public health problem and …

Zoonotic spillover and hybridization of parasites are major emerging public and veterinary
health concerns at the interface of infectious disease biology, evolution, and control …

Background Schistosomiasis is endemic in 78 countries belonging to tropical and
subtropical areas. However, autochthonous transmission of urogenital schistosomiasis was …

Urogenital schistosomiasis was diagnosed in a man from Germany who had never traveled
outside Europe. He likely acquired the infection in Corsica, France, but did not swim in the …

Interrogating the genetic make-up of schistosome larvae (ie, eggs, miracidia, and cercariae)
originating from definitive or intermediate snail hosts with molecular DNA methods has, by …

Schistosomiasis is one of the most prominent parasite-induced infectious diseases, causing
tremendous medical and socioeconomic problems. Current studies have reported on the …

Schistosomes cause schistosomiasis, the world's second most important parasitic disease
after malaria in terms of public health and social-economic impacts. A peculiar feature of …