BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer associated with chronic intestinal schistosomiasis has been linked with the chronic inflammation as a result of schistosomal ova deposition in the submucosal layer of the intestine. Among all species Schistosoma japonicum has been more linked to development of colorectal cancer as compared to Schistosoma mansoni due to absence of population-based studies to support ...

Schistosomiasis, caused by three principal species of diecious trematodes (flatworms), currently afflicts over 250 million individuals, results in an estimated 2-15% chronic disability, and contributes to poor health and economic stagnation in endemic areas. Although schistosomiasis is effectively treated with praziquantel, rapid reinfection with rebound morbidity precludes effective control ba...

Human schistosomiasis, also known as bilharziasis is a complex of acute and chronic parasitic infections caused by mammalian blood flukes belonging to the genus Schistosoma. The disease is endemic in 74 countries with an estimated 200 million people infected, of whom 120 million are symptomatic and 20 million have severe disease. Six hundred million people are at risk of infection [1]. The infe...

Schistosomiasis is the most common of the trematode infections, affecting more than 200 million people worldwide.1,2 Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis occurs primarily with infection due to Schistosoma mansoni and less often with Schistosoma japonicum. If left untreated patients may ultimately develop massive hepatosplenomegaly, portal hypertension, and variceal hemorrhage.1–3 The diagnosis of hepa...

Infectious diseases are influenced by where patients have lived or travelled in the past, e.g., infection with Schistosoma mekongi can be acquired during freshwater contact in Cambodia, but not in the United States. Here the infectious diseases of Khmer immigrants in the United States were studied by reviewing published reports. Thirteen case series and 9 case reports of 5,222 patients were ide...

Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 1000e103 Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that afflicts over 200 million people worldwide, causing visceral organ disturbance, and impairing growth and cognitive development in children [1]. The etiological agents of human schistosomiasis are the blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma, including S. mansoni, S. haematobium, and S. japonicum. S. mansoni is blamed for ove...

Schistosomiasis is widespread, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America (IARC, 1994, Ross et al., 2002). A report of the World Health Organization in 1993 estimated that 200 million people were infected with schistosomes and that 600 million people were at risk of infection in 74 countries (WHO, 1993). Although in recent years the endemic areas have tended to decrease as a result of adminis...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY We developed 10 new primers for amplifying microsatellite loci for both Leucosceptrum japonicum and L. stellipilum to study the genetic structure of hybrid zones between these two species. • METHODS AND RESULTS We isolated DNA fragments containing microsatellites from an enriched library and designed the 10 primer pairs amplifying the fragments. The number o...