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    Schistosoma haematobium (urinary blood fluke) is a species of digenetic trematode, belonging to a group (genus) of blood flukes (Schistosoma). It is found...
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    four species are Schistosoma bomfordi Schistosoma datta Schistosoma harinasutai Schistosoma turkestanicum The hybrid S. haematobium-S.guineenis was observed...
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  • caused mainly by three schistosome species; Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum and Schistosoma haematobium. S. japonicum being the most infectious...
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  • (Schistosoma haematobium), the Southeast Asian liver fluke (Opisthorchis viverrini) and the Chinese liver fluke (Clonorchis sinensis). S. haematobium is...
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    examination should be performed if S. haematobium is suspected. Eggs can be present in the stool in infections with all Schistosoma species. The examination can...
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    medicine. He is best remembered as the discoverer of the blood fluke Schistosoma haematobium, the causative parasite of bloody urine (haematuria) known since...
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    Schistosoma mansoni is a water-borne parasite of humans, and belongs to the group of blood flukes (Schistosoma). The adult lives in the blood vessels (mesenteric...
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    and shape. The eggs of Schistosoma intercalatum have a terminal spine and tend to be moderately larger than those of S. haematobium (approximately 130 × 75 μm)...
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    T. H. (2006). "The complete mitochondrial genomes of Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma spindale and the evolutionary history of mitochondrial...
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  • nine haematobium group species and exists in the same geographical areas as Schistosoma haematobium, with which it can hybridise. S. bovis-haematobium hybrids...
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  • pose a health risk. However, it does caution that in areas where Schistosoma haematobium is prevalent, it can be transmitted from person to person. Soupeur...
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  • Parasitic infections strongly associated with cancer include Schistosoma haematobium (squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder) and the liver flukes,...
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    Vercruysse J (December 2004). "Efficacy of praziquantel against Schistosoma haematobium infection in children". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine...
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  • Schistosoma mekongi is a species of trematodes, also known as flukes. It is one of the five major schistosomes that account for all human infections,...
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    vessels such as the genus that causes schistosomiasis, the genus of Schistosoma. Including what lives in the lung such as the genus of Paragonimus. These...
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    rich meal", acute endocarditis, schistosomiasis brought on by Schistosoma haematobium, porphyria, and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Fritz Schachermeyr proposed...
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  • sinensis (infection with) Opisthorchis viverrini (infection with) Schistosoma haematobium (infection with) Acetaldehyde associated with consumption of alcoholic...
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    as hosts for Schistosoma mansoni, Fasciolopsis and other parasitic groups. The tiny Bulinus snails are hosts for Schistosoma haematobium. Lymnaeid snails...
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    Infection with Schistosoma haematobium (bilharzia or schistosomiasis) may cause bladder cancer, particularly of the squamous cell type. Schistosoma eggs induces...
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    tentacles. While P. metidjensis has been successfully infected with Schistosoma haematobium in the laboratory, in Morocco, no free-living infected snails have...
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  • with infected Biomphalaria freshwater snails urinary blood fluke Schistosoma haematobium kidney, bladder, ureters, lungs, skin urine Africa, Middle East...
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    MS; Monto, AS; Barakat, RM (1981). "An epidemiological study of Schistosoma haematobium and S. Mansoni infection in thirty-five rural Egyptian villages"...
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  • the pulmonary artery branches. It results from shifting of the Schistosoma haematobium ova from the pelvic and vesical plexus to the pulmonary artery...
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    Parasitic infections strongly associated with cancer include Schistosoma haematobium (squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder) and the liver flukes,...
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    (colorectal cancer) Parasitic infections associated with cancer include: Schistosoma haematobium (squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder) The liver flukes, Opisthorchis...
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  • (December 1979). "Praziquantel: a new schistosomicide against Schistosoma haematobium". Br Med J. 2 (6202): 1396–8. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.6202.1396. PMC 1597073...
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    duodenale Hymenolepis nana Taenia saginata Enterobius Fasciola hepatica Schistosoma mansoni Toxocara canis Toxocara cati Helminthiases are classified as...
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    Urinary schistosomiasis, a disease caused by the digenean trematode Schistosoma haematobium, has been implicated in the development of vesical calculi. However...
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    Africa is very high due to the high prevalence of the blood fluke schistosoma haematobium, which chronically infects the urinary tract. In pediatric populations...
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  • "Squamous Cell Abnormalities in Exfoliated Cells from the Urine of Schistosoma haematobium-Infected Adults in a Rural Fishing Community in Nigeria". World...
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