Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good ...

raising concerns about schistosomiasis diagnosis and prevalence. The eggs came from offspring of Schistosoma haematobium and S. mattheei, a livestock parasite, as well as evidence that S.

Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma bovis, were trading genes frequently -- a process called hybridization. This caused concern among those working to manage schistosomiasis, because it would ...

In 2013, nearly one million school-aged children in these endemic areas were treated for schistosomiasis in Kenya.

Vienna, Austria played host to a momentous gathering, welcoming over 15,000 attendees from across five continents for the ...

Female genital schistosomiasis causes pain, stigma, and poverty, yet remains misdiagnosed, misunderstood, and ignored.

Female genital schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, devastates women amid poor sanitation and medical misdiagnoses.

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic infection prevalent mainly in tropical and subtropical countries. We report a case of urinary infection caused by Schistosoma haematobium in a 16-year-old boy from Mali ...

S Knopp acknowledges additional financial support from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (sub-award no. RR374-053/4893196). The research of K. Ingram and J ...

Background: In nonendemic countries a steady rise in cases of imported schistosomiasis has been observed. The objective of this study was to describe the presentation of patients diagnosed with ...