- Schistosomiasis, also
known as
snail fever,
bilharzia, and
Katayama fever, is a
disease caused by
parasitic flatworms called schistosomes. The urinary...
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infection (generally
including all
schistosome infections) was
called bilharzia or bilharziasis.
Along with
other helminth parasites Clonorchis sinensis...
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discovering and
campaigning relentlessly for an
affordable preventative against bilharzia."made his most
important scientific discovery very
early in his career...
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included in Distoma. So in 1856
Meckel von
Helmsback (de)
created the
genus Bilharzia for them. In 1858
David Friedrich Weinland proposed the name Schistosoma...
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Cancer as
Group 1 carcinogen. The
infection is
known by an
eponymous term
bilharzia or bilharziasis, as well as by schistosomiasis.
Bilharz was born and educated...
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mosquito breeding sites.
Copper sulfate is used as a
molluscicide to
treat bilharzia in
tropical countries. In 2008, the
artist Roger Hiorns filled an abandoned...
- duct cancer). Schistosomes,
which cause the
devastating tropical disease bilharzia, also
belong to this group.
Adults range between 0.2 mm (0.0079 in) and...
- and form a
habitat for the
vectors of water-borne
illnesses such as
bilharzia,
river blindness and malaria.
Resettlement of the
displaced inhabitants...
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Biomphalaria and Bulinus, are
intermediate hosts of the
parasite that
causes bilharzia (schistosomiasis).
Human infections by this
parasite are
common at Lake...
- Philadelphia:
Saunders [Imprint]. ISBN 9780702051012. Farley, John (2003).
Bilharzia : a
history of
imperial tropical medicine (1. paperback ed.). [S.l.]:...
