Genetic characterization of schistosome species from cattle in Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a water-based parasitic disease that affects humans, livestock and wild animals. While considerable resources are dedicated to the surveillance, disease mapping, control
Mortality due to Chagas disease in Brazil from 1979 to 2009: trends and regional differences (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Studies on mortality due to parasitic diseases such as Chagas disease are useful to understand the epidemiology and to plan and guide control measures for these diseases. We analyzed mortality
The emergence of angiostrongyliasis in the People's Republic of China: the interplay between invasive snails, climate change and transmission... (Publications)
may offer an approach to identify areas prone to the spread of vectors, intermediate hosts and parasites in a future warmer China and elsewhere
Acute muscular sarcocystosis: an international investigation among ill travelers returning from Tioman island, Malaysia, 2011 and 2012 (Publications)
outbreak of acute muscular sarcocystosis (AMS), a rarely-reported zoonosis caused by a protozoan parasite of the genus Sarcocystis, associated with travel to Tioman Island, Malaysia, during 2011-2012. METHODS:
Nonrandomized controlled trial of artesunate plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine with or without primaquine for preventing posttreatment circulation of... (Publications)
effective against mature gametocytes, could be added to further reduce the potential for posttreatment parasite transmission. Currently, we have few data regarding the effectiveness or safety of doing so. We
In vitro and in vivo activities of synthetic trioxolanes against major human schistosome species (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that remains of considerable public health significance in tropical and subtropical environments. Since the mainstay of schistosomiasis control is chemotherapy with
Comparison of the diagnostic accuracy of three rapid tests for the serodiagnosis of hepatic cystic echinococcosis in humans (Publications)
single hepatic CE cysts in well-defined ultrasound stages (gold standard) and 25 patients with non-parasitic cysts were analyzed by RDTs VIRapid HYDATIDOSIS (Vircell, Spain), Echinococcus DIGFA (Unibiotest
Asymptomatic only at first sight: malaria infection among schoolchildren in highland Rwanda (Publications)
Rwanda, 1089 children aged 6-10 years were clinically and anthropometrically examined, malaria parasites were diagnosed by microscopy and PCR, haemoglobin concentrations were measured, and socio-economic
<em>Schistosoma japonicum</em>: in vitro effects of artemether combined with haemin depend on cultivation media and appraisal of artemether products... (Publications)
recently found that the exposure of schistosomes in vitro to artemether plus haemin can lead to parasite death, while exposure to each compound singly had no effect. Since these observations might be relevant
Important helminth infections in Southeast Asia diversity, potential for control and prospects for elimination (Publications)
lymphatic filariasis, food-borne trematodiases, echinococcosis and cysticercosis/taeniasis, less common parasitic diseases that can cause epidemic outbreaks and helminth infections affecting the central nervous
