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Theodor Bilharz
The parasite thereby became Bilharzia haematobium, and with it von Hemsbach introduced the name of the disease as bilharzia. In 1949, the World Health Organization adopted the name bilharzia for medical terminology.
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bilharzia
Bilharzia, bilharzia (bɪlˈhɑːzɪə) [mod.L., f. the name of Theodor Bilharz (1825–62), a German physician who discovered the parasite in 1852.] a. A genus of trematode worms parasitic in the veins of the pelvic region and urinary organs of human beings, esp. in Egypt and other parts of Africa. Also at...
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bilharzia
bilharzia/ˌbɪlˈhɑ:tsɪə; bɪl`hɑrtsɪə/ n[U](medical 医) tropical disease caused by worms in the blood and bladder 血吸虫病.
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Bulinus nyassanus
Although only a minority of these snails are infected (generally 2% or less in B. nyassanus), they do play an important role in the spread of bilharzia
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Schistosoma bovis
Sonsino later revised the name as Bilharzia crassa in 1877, and then as Gynaecophorus crassa in 1992. Thus, the original Bilharzia bovis became Schistosoma bovis.
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Francisca Mutapi
In 2018 Mutapi was awarded the University of Edinburgh's Chancellor’s Award for Impact in recognition of her work on the treatment for bilharzia. Currently there are no available vaccines for infections by helminth worms including bilharzia.
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trematode
trematode, a. and n. Zool. (ˈtrɛmətəʊd) [ad. mod.L. Trēmatōda neut. pl., a. Gr. τρηµατώδης having holes, perforated, f. τρῆµα hole, orifice.] A. adj. Belonging to the class or order Trematoda or Trematoidea of parasitic worms, found in the bodies of various animals, having a flattish or cylindrical ...
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Schistosoma haematobium
He recorded that four people out of five cancer patients had bilharzia. By 1905, he was convinced that carcinoma of bladder was due to bilharzia.
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Phytolacca dodecandra
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Lugt (1977), "De zeepbesplant als onderdrukker van bilharzia" ("The soap berry plant as a suppressor of bilharzia"), in: Landbk
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Niridazole
It is used to treat schistosomiasis, the helmintic disease caused by certain flatworms (trematodes) from the genus Schistosoma (formerly Bilharzia).
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Trematocranus placodon
aquatic snails and has a preference for Bulinus nyassanus, making this cichlid beneficial to humans as that snail is an intermediate host of the parasite bilharzia It has been suggested that an increase in bilharzia in Lake Malawi has been caused by overfishing of this and other snail-eating cichlids.
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Legesse Wolde-Yohannes
He cooperated with Aklilu Lemma on the discovery and research on how to use the plant endod as a means of preventing the parasitic disease bilharzia.
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Xenodiagnosis
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Émile Brumpt introduced the xenodiagnosis technique into parasitological research and extensively studied such diseases as bilharzia, Chagas disease
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Aklilu Lemma
In 1989, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for discovering and campaigning relentlessly for an affordable preventative against bilharzia." scientific discovery very early in his career, in 1964, when he discovered a natural treatment to schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever disease or bilharzia
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