Schistosomiasis (bilharziasis): From antiquity to the present

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-218

  Mahmoud, Adel A F ^a,b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY TARTRATE; ANTISCHISTOSOMAL AGENT;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CARRIER; HEMATURIA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEISHMANIASIS; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA INTERCALATUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SIDE EFFECT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 2442569032     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2004.01.003     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. Ackernecht E.H. History and geography of the most important diseases. 1965;Huffner, New York
2. Adamson P.B. Schistosomiasis in antiquity. Med Hist. 20:1976;176-188
3. Desowitz R. Tropical diseases from 50, 000 BC to 2500 AD. 1997;Harper Collins, London
4. Groves D.I. A history of human helminthology. 1990;CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon. p. 1-848
5. Nunn J.F., Tapp E. Tropical diseases in ancient Egypt. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 94:2000;147-153
6. Kean B.E., Mott K.E., Russell A.J. Tropical medicine and parasitology, classic investigations. vol. 2:1978;Cornell University Press, Ithaca
7. Jordan P. From Katayama to the Dakhla Oasis: the beginning of epidemiology and control of bilharzias. Acta Trop. 77:2000;9-40
8. Cox F.E.G. History of human parasitology. Clin Microb Rev. 15:2002;595-612
9. Lyons A.S., Petrucelli R.J. II. Medicine an illustrated history. 1978;Abradale Press/Harry N Abrams, New York
10. Mahmoud A.A.F. Schistosomiasis in tropical medicine: science and practice. 2001;510 Imperial College Press, London
11. Mahmoud AAF, editor. Schistosomiasis and other trematode infections. In: Kaspar, et al. editors. Harrison's principles of internal medicine, 16th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2004. In press.
12. Girges E. Schistosomiasis (bilharziasis). 1934;John Bale, Sons and Danielson Ltd, London
13. Ebbell B. The Papyrus Ebers. 1937;Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
14. Bryan C.P. The Papyrus Ebers. 1930;Geoffrey Bles, London, United Kingdom
15. Ruffer M.A. Note on the presence of Bilharzia haematobia in Egyptian mummies of the twentieth dynasty (1240-1000 BC). BMJ. 1:1910;16
16. Deelder A.M., Miller R.L., De Jonge N., Kruger F.W. Detection of schistosome antigen in mummies. Lancet. 1:1990;724-725
17. Miller R.L., Armelagos G.J., Ikram S., De Jonge N., Kruger F.W., Deelder A.M. Palaeoepidemiology of schistosome infection in mummies. BMJ. I:1992;555-556
18. Nunn J.F. Ancient Egyptian medicine. 1996;University of Oklahoma Press, Oklahoma
19. Katsurada F. The etiology of a parasitic disease. Iji Shimbun 669:1325-32.
20. Bilharz T., von Siebold C.T. Ein Beitrag zur Helminhographia humana, aus brieflichen Mitteilungen des Dr. Bilharz in Cairo nenst Bermerkungen von Prof C Th Von Siebold in Breslau. Zeitschrift Für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 4:1852;53-76
21. Bilharz T. Fernere Mitteilungen ÿber Distomum haematobium. Zeitschrift Für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 4:1853;454-455
22. Harley J. A second communication on the endemic haematuria of the Cape of Good Hope and Natal. Med Chir Trans. 52:1869;379-387
23. Harley J. A third communication on the endemic haematuria of the south-east Coast of Africa with remarks on the topical medication for the bladder. Med Chir Trans. 54:1871;47-62
24. Sonsino P. Discovery of the life history of Bilharzia haematobia (Cobbold). Lancet. 2:1893;621-622
25. Looss A. What is "Schistosomum mansoni, " Sambon 1907. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 2:1908;153-191
26. Leiper R.T. Report on the results of the bilharzias mission to Egypt, 1915 Part VI. Bearing of previous work on B. japonica and concluding remarks. J R Army Med Corps. 30:1918;253-260
27. Leiper R.T. Report on the results of the bilharzias mission in Egypt, 1915 Part I Transmission. J R Army Med Corps. 25:1915;1-48
28. Leiper R.T. Report on the results of the bilharzias mission in Egypt, 1915 Part I Transmission. J R Army Med Corps. 25:1915;147-192
29. Fujinami A., Nakamura A. The mode of transmission of Katayama disease of Hiroshima Prefecture. Japanese schistosomiasis, the development of the causative worm and the disease in animals caused by it. Hiroshima Iji Geppo. 132:1909;324-341
30. Sasa M. A historical review of early Japanese contributions to the knowledge of Schistosomiasis Japonicum. Yokogawa M. Researches in filariasis and schistosomiasis, vol. 2:1972;235-261 University Park Press, Baltimore
31. Christopherson J.B. The successful use of antimony in bilharziosis. BMJ. 11:1918;325-327
32. Christopherson J.B. The treatment of bilharziasis with antimony. J Trop Med Hyg. 26:1923;211
33. Day H.B. Anthelmintic work in Egypt. Lancet. 1:1924;435-437
34. Khalil M. The eradication of bilharziasis: a successful attempt in an endemic area. Lancet. 2:1927;1235
35. Mahmoud A.A.F., Siongo K.T.A., Ouma J., et al. Effect of targeted mass treatment on intensity of infection and morbidity in schistosomiasis mansoni: 3 year follow up of a community in Machakos, Kenya. Lancet. 1:1983;849-851
36. Technical Report Series WHO. 912. Prevention and control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis. 2002;World Health Organization, Geneva
37. Sadun E.H., von Lichtenberg F., Cheever A.W., et al. Experimental infection with Schistosoma haematobium in chimpanzees. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 19:1970;427-458
38. Smithers S.R., Terry R.J. The immunology of schistosomiasis. Adv Parasitol. 14:1976;399-423
39. Warren K.S. Regulation of the prevalence and intensity of schistosomiasis in man: immunology or ecology. J Infect Dis. 127:1973;595-609
40. Warren K.S. Schistosomiasis: the evolution of a medical literature. Selected abstracts and citations, 1852-1972. 1973;The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
41. Butterworth A.E. Immunological aspects of human schistosomiasis. Br Med Bull. 54:1998;357-368
42. Colley D.G. Dynamics of the human immune response to schistosomes. Mahmoud A.A.F. Clinical tropical medicine and communicable diseases, vol. 2. Schistosomiasis. 1987;315-332 Bailliere Tindall, London
43. Mahmoud A.A.F. The ecology of eosinophils in schistosomiasis. Infectious Disease. 145:1982;613-622
44. Jankovic D., Kullberg M.C., Nolsen-Traub N., et al. Schistosome infected IL-4 receptor knockout (KO) mice in contrast to IL-4 KO mice fail to develop granulomatous pathology while maintaining the same lymphokine expression profile. J Immunol. 163:1999;337-342
45. Boros D.L. T helper cell populations, cytokine dynamics and pathology of the schistosome egg granuloma. Microbes Infect. 7:1999;511-516
46. Capron M., Capron A. Rats, mice and man: models for immune effector mechanisms against schistosomiasis. Parasitol Today. 2:1986;69-75
47. st century. Science. 293:2001;1433-1438
48. Foster J.M., Johnston D.A. Helminth genomics: from gene discovery to genome sequencing. Trends Parasitol. 18:2002;241-242
49. Copeland C.S., Brindley P.J., Heyers O., et al. Boudicca, a retrovirus-like long terminal repeat retrotransposon from the genome of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni. J Viral. 77:2003;6153-6166