 Schistosomiasis
"Schistosomiasis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Infection with flukes (trematodes) of the genus SCHISTOSOMA. Three species produce the most frequent clinical diseases: SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM (endemic in Africa and the Middle East), SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI (in Egypt, northern and southern Africa, some West Indies islands, northern 2/3 of South America), and SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM (in Japan, China, the Philippines, Celebes, Thailand, Laos). S. mansoni is often seen in Puerto Ricans living in the United States.
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D012552
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.335.865.859
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| Concept/Terms |
Schistosomiasis- Schistosomiasis
- Schistosomiases
- Katayama Fever
- Fever, Katayama
- Bilharziasis
- Bilharziases
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Schistosomiasis" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Schistosomiasis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Schistosomiasis" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Diaz Soria CL, Attenborough T, Lu Z, Fontenla S, Graham J, Hall C, Thompson S, Andrews TGR, Rawlinson KA, Berriman M, Rinaldi G. Single-cell transcriptomics of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni first intra-molluscan stage reveals tentative tegumental and stem-cell regulators. Sci Rep. 2024 03 12; 14(1):5974.
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Houweling TA, Karim-Kos HE, Kulik MC, Stolk WA, Haagsma JA, Lenk EJ, Richardus JH, de Vlas SJ. Socioeconomic Inequalities in Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Systematic Review. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 05; 10(5):e0004546.
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