Download or read book Bilharzia written by John Farley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis.
Download or read book Poison in Small Measure Dr Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia written by Ann Crichton-Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1917, in Khartoum, Dr. J.B. Christopherson experimentally treated seventy bilharzia patients with injections of antimony tartrate, an early chemotherapy. His was the first successful treatment. Antimony had never been tried on bilharzia patients before, or so he believed. This biography examines the turbulent life of this medical pioneer, his fight for priority and his struggle for professional survival amid the politics of exclusion in General Wingate's Sudan. His was a career full of paradoxes: acclaimed for intercepting a smallpox outbreak, building a hospital and satellite clinics, he battled accusations and removal as director of the Medical Department. From the Boer War, two decades in Sudan, his capture and release in Serbia to his time in France in WW1, controversy seldom left him.
Download or read book A Tale of a Man a Worm and a Snail written by Alan Fenwick and published by CABI. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schistosomiasis is Africa's second most common parasitic disease. Less than 20 years ago, over 200 million were infected. In many high-risk areas the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) has been helping to tackle the disease by offering treatments to millions of children. This book tells the story of a man, Alan Fenwick, who founded the SCI to control the worms and snails and so improve the lives of many burdened with the disease as well as reducing the numbers infected. Over this period SCI and the Ministries of Health and Education in 16 countries delivered over 220 million treatments. Treatment coverage of up to 75% has been achieved. Widely recognised as a cost-effective and successful intervention, SCI's knock-on effects include improving overall physical health, school attendance and future prospects for millions of people.
Download or read book Schistosomiasis vel bilharziasis written by Claudius Galen Kay Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bilharziasis written by F. K. Mostofi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade there has been an increasing awareness of the need for a different approach to the problem of bilharziasis. We do know that 180-200 million people are infected and that the infection is increasing but we have not as yet been able to answer the question: Are they suffering from a disease. Study of vital statistics or hospital records, mass biochemical or immunological tests and community surveys have not yet provided the full answer. Gradually and perhaps begrudgingly, we have come to realize that we must study the ma- initially by means of well controlled clinical observations to obtain evidence for the altered physiology, if any, due to bilharzial infection; secondly and equally important through pathological studies on individual patients to determine the structural changes, if any, as a result of infection with this parasite; and by post mortem studies. Experimental studies of bilharzial infection in animals, valuable as they may be for the elucidation of the pathogenesis of the lesions in the laboratory animal and in man cannot serve as a substitute for the precise information on the nature of the possible lesions induced by bilharziasis in man. Basically, the significance of any clinical observation can 'be evaluated only through reliable pathological confirmation.
Download or read book The Diseases of warm countries written by Botho Scheube and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parasitic helminths and zoonoses in Africa written by P. Craig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helminths include one of the most diverse and geographically widespread groups of parasites which infect humans and animals. About 100 species have been reported from humans, usually producing asymptomatic infection or mild symptoms. However, about 20 species are of public health importance causing severe or even fatal infections. In many parts of Africa parasitic helminths are responsible for enormous economic losses, hampering rural development programmes and reducing the pace of economic growth. Many parasitic helminths are either zoonoses (diseases naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals and man) or have evolved from animal parasites. The modification of the environment through wars, famine and the ever expanding and increasingly mobile human population brings people into close contact with new environments and wildlife species which makes the study and control of zoonoses of special interest and complexity. In Africa, the transmission of helminth parasites is highly influenced by the ever changing social and cultural differences between diverse groups of peoples and their interaction with wild and domestic animals. It is not surprising, therefore, that approaches to the study and control of parasitic zoonoses require intersectoral cooperation between physicians, veterinarians, parasitologists, zoologists, demographers, anthropologists, engineers and economists to provide the breadth of knowledge and expertise required to develop our understanding of these diseases and to devise methods for their control. This book provides a selective compilation of parasitic helminths, many of which are zoonoses which create important economic and public health problems in Africa.
Download or read book Reports and collected studies from the Institute of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene of Porto Rico v 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Schistosomiasis written by Peter Jordan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human schistosomes (blood flukes) are digenetic trematodes that spend the adult part of their life cycle in humans and a further part in aquatic snails. Despite advances in chemotherapy, schistosomiasis is still a significant infection in the populations of several countries in the tropics. This book replaces a previous volume Schistosomiasis: Epidemiology, Treatment and Control (Heinemann, 1982) by Jordan and Webbe. All chapters have been rewritten by internationally renowned workers. Ultrasound, expected to aid identification of early disease in the field and increase our understanding of its evolution, is discussed in a new chapter. Others, each with an extensive bibliography, review the parasites and their snail intermediate hosts, epidemiology, clinical manifestations and pathology, diagnosis, immunology, drugs and patient management and control. Limitations of the role of chemotherapy in morbidity control are discussed and the need for flexibility in control interventions in the varied epidemiological situations is stressed. An interdisciplinary approach may be necessary to reduce transmission by appropriate measures against the snail intermediate host, and to implement public health measures, including the provision of safe water (with many other medical and social benefits) and health education. This comprehensive volume is for public health workers involved in the prevention and control of the disease, for physicians, and for students and teachers of many disciplines. It also provides a reference book for health planners, social anthropologists, health educators, water and sanitary engineers and others engaged in improving health in the tropics. Physicians in temperate countries will also find it a useful reference book as schistosomiasis, often acute, is being diagnosed more frequently in those returning from holidays in endemic areas.
Download or read book Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boston Medical and Surgical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Tropical Veterinary Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lancet written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of the Egyptian Government Faculty of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the 1st National Symposium on Bilharziasis Cairo October 24 29 1964 written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary of Investigations written by Communicable Disease Center (U.S.) Technology Branch and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions written by Epidemiological Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.