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Bilharzia haematobia
Haematozoon H[ae]m`a*to*zo"["o]n, n.; pl. H[ae]matozoa. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, blood + ? animal.] (Zo["o]l.) A parasite inhabiting the blood; esp.: (a) Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc. (b) The trematode, Bilharzia h[ae]matobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death.

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- Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, bilharzia, and Katayama fever, is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes. The urinary...
- infection (generally including all schistosome infections) was called bilharzia or bilharziasis. Along with other helminth parasites Clonorchis sinensis...
- 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...
- discovering and campaigning relentlessly for an affordable preventative against bilharzia."made his most important scientific discovery very early in his career...
- 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...
- and form a habitat for the vectors of water-borne illnesses such as bilharzia, river blindness and malaria. Resettlement of the displaced inhabitants...
- 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...
- 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...
- to use the plant endod as a means of preventing the parasitic disease bilharzia. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1989, jointly with Lemma...
- important tools in neurological research. Schistosomiasis (also known as bilharzia, bilharziosis, or snail fever) is transmitted to humans by water snail...