Schistosomiasis Flukes Parasitic Infectious Diseases

Schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis, also known as Bilharziasis, is caused by a blood fluke whose larvae contaminate fresh water where humans contract the disease by wading, swimming, or bathing.

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• - Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
  
• - Medical and scientific information on the organisms and the diseases they cause.
  
• - Features cause, images, affected populations, control, and treatment.
  
• - Includes group information, articles, disease information, and history of studies on the parasite.
  
• - Includes disease information, activities, objectives, publications, and links.
  
• - Article by Palaniandy Kogulan, MD.
  
• - Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
  
• - Article on the disease and its effects.
  
• - Features disease information, parasite life cycle, research, achievements, news, publications, and images.
  
• - Includes life cycle, images, and disease information.
  
• - Factsheet with cause, affected areas of the world, symptoms, geographic distribution map, prevention, and treatment.
  
• - Includes factsheets and news releases.
  
• - Features objectives, disease information, programs, operating locations, and news.
  
• - Collaborative project between faculty of the Environmental Health Sciences Program and the College of Natural Resources at U.C. Berkeley, and the Sichuan Institute of Parasitic Disease (SIPD) in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. Includes disease informati
  
• - Includes disease information, parasite life cycle, research information, and links.
  
• - Includes factsheets on the disease, programs, and research.
  
  

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