Bladder Morbidity and Hepatic Fibrosis in Mixed Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni Infections: A Population-Wide Study in Northern Senegal

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Meurs, Lynn ^a   Mbow, Moustapha ^b   Vereecken, Kim ^a   Menten, Joris ^a   Mboup, Souleymane ^b   Polman, Katja ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Aristide Le Dantec de Dakar   (Senegal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SENEGAL; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866903904     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001829     Document Type: Article

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