作者: Allen G.P. Ross , Paul B. Bartley , Adrian C. Sleigh , G. Richard Olds , Yuesheng Li
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMRA012396
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摘要: In 1851, Theodor Bilharz described a parasitic infection (bilharzia) that would later be termed schistosomiasis. Currently, 200 million people in 74 countries have this disease; 120 of them symptoms, and 20 severe illness.1 Schistosomiasis is caused by trematode worms (schistosomes) reside the abdominal veins their vertebrate definitive hosts. The life cycle schistosome depicted Figure 1. 1 10 tropical diseases especially targeted for control Special Program Research Training Tropical Diseases United Nations Development Program, World Bank, . [Full Text Article]