Schistosoma hematobium and S. mansoni among children, Southern Sudan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1504-1506

  Deganello, Roberto ^a,e   Cruciani, Mario ^b   Beltramello, Claudio ^c   Duncan, Otine ^a   Oyugi, Vincent ^d   Montresor, Antonio ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Center of Preventive Medicine   (Italy)

^c OSPEDALE CA FONCELLO   (Italy)

^d Comitato di Coordinamento Delle Organizzazioni Per il Servizio Volontario ^*  (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEX RATIO; SUDAN; URINALYSIS;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SUDAN; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 35548964284     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Cruikshank A. Tropical diseases of South Sudan: their distribution and significance. East Afr Med J. 1936;13:172-7.
2. Hassan AM, Satir AA, Ahmed MA, Omer A. The pathology of schistosomiasis in Sudan. Trop Geogr Med. 1977;29:56-64.
3. Ayad N. Bilharziasis survey in British Somaliland, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Sudan and Yemen. Bull World Health Organ. 1956;14:1-117.
4. Archibald RG. The endemiology and epidemiology of schistosomiasis in the Sudan. J Trop Med Hyg. 1933;36:345-8.
5. Omer AHS. Schistosomiasis in the Sudan: historical background and the present magnitude of the problem. Proceedings of the International Conference on Schistosomiasis, Cairo, Egypt. 1975;1978:121-32.
6. Omer AH, Abdullah EA, Elhassan AM, Wasfi AM. Hycanthone trial in the treatment of Schistosoma mansoni infection in Sudan. J Trop Med Hyg. 1972;75:165-8.
7. Kuntz RE, Lawless DK, Mansour NS. A cursory survey of the intestinal parasites of natives living in Southwest Sudan. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1955;4:895-900.
8. Ministry of Health of Sudan. Reports of the Sudan Medical Service for the years 1929-1948. Khartoum: The Ministry.
9. Amin MA, Omer AHS. Schistosoma haematobium infection at El Ghorashi Dairy farm, Khartoum, Sudan. Sudan Med J. 1972;10:194-201.
10. Magambo JK, Zeyhle E, Wachira TM. Prevalence of intestinal parasites among children in southern Sudan. East Afr Med J. 1998;75:288-90.
11. Montresor A, Gyorkos T, Crompton DWT, Savioli L. Helminth control in school-age children. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2002. p. 19-20.
12. World Health Organization. Basic laboratory methods in medical parasitology. Geneva: The Organization; 1991.
13. Marnell F, Guillet A, Holland C. A survey of the intestinal helminths of refugees in Juba, Sudan. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 1992;86:387-93.
14. Loroni-Lakwo T, Odongo-Aginya EI, Schweigmann U, Schickerling S, Lindner D, Doehring-Schwerdtfeger E. Transmission of Schistosoma mansoni in Rhino Camp, Uganda. East Afr Med J. 1994;71:165-6.
15. World Health Organization. Prevention and control of schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminthiasis. Report of a WHO Expert Committee. Technical Report Series 912. Geneva: The Organization; 2002.