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ReviewClinical microbiology reviews2015

Advances in the Diagnosis of Human Schistosomiasis.

Kosala G A D Weerakoon, Geoffrey N Gobert, Pengfei Cai, Donald P McManus

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Review in Clinical microbiology reviews, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 177 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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177 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kosala G A D WeerakoonQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka.
Geoffrey N GobertQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Pengfei CaiQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Donald P McManusQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia Don.McManus@qimrberghofer.edu.au.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Schistosomiasis is a major neglected tropical disease that afflicts more than 240 million people, including many children and young adults, in the tropics and subtropics. The disease is characterized by chronic infections with significant residual morbidity and is of considerable public health importance, with substantial socioeconomic impacts on impoverished communities. Morbidity reduction and eventual elimination through integrated intervention measures are the focuses of current schistosomiasis control programs. Precise diagnosis of schistosome infections, in both mammalian and snail intermediate hosts, will play a pivotal role in achieving these goals. Nevertheless, despite extensive efforts over several decades, the search for sensitive and specific diagnostics for schistosomiasis is ongoing. Here we review the area, paying attention to earlier approaches but emphasizing recent developments in the search for new diagnostics for schistosomiasis with practical applications in the research laboratory, the clinic, and the field. Careful and rigorous validation of these assays and their cost-effectiveness will be needed, however, prior to their adoption in support of policy decisions for national public health programs aimed at the control and elimination of schistosomiasis.

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AnimalsHealth PolicyHumansPublic HealthSchistosomiasisSnailsTropical Medicine

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PMID26224883
PMCPMC4548261

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