Schistosomiasis is a common neglected tropical disease of impoverished people and
livestock in many developing countries in tropical Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin …

Elimination of schistosomiasis as a public health problem among all disease-endemic
countries in 2030 is an ambitious goal. Recent achievements resulting from mass drug …

Background With the vision of “a world free of schistosomiasis,” the World Health
Organization (WHO) set ambitious goals of control of this debilitating disease and its …

Schistosomiasis, caused by human trematode blood flukes (schistosomes), remains one of
the most prevalent and serious of the neglected tropical parasitic diseases. Currently …

We estimate the fractions of cancer attributed to infections in Africa in 2018. The number of
new cancer cases occurring was taken from Globocan2018 with some additional …

Background Historically, the target in the schistosomiasis control has shifted from infection to
morbidity, then back to infection, but now as a public health problem, before moving on to …

The complex multi-host disease dynamics of schistosomiasis and Schistosoma spp.,
including the emergence of zoonotic parasite hybrids, remain largely unexplored in West …

Background Over the past 20 years, schistosomiasis control has been scaled up. Preventive
chemotherapy with praziquantel is the main intervention. We aimed to assess the effect of …

Background: A steady progress on schistosomiasis control in the Peoples' Republic of China
(PR China) was achieved and broadened into the twelve-year medium and long term …

Background In some tropical countries, such as Brazil, schistosomiasis control programs
have led to a significant reduction in the prevalence and parasite burden of endemic …