Schistosomiasis with a focus on Africa

OP Aula, DP McManus, MK Jones… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Schistosomiasis is a common neglected tropical disease of impoverished people and
livestock in many developing countries in tropical Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin …

Advances in the diagnosis of human schistosomiasis

KGAD Weerakoon, GN Gobert, P Cai… - Clinical microbiology …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

[HTML][HTML] New diagnostic tools in schistosomiasis

J Utzinger, SL Becker, L Van Lieshout… - Clinical microbiology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Schistosomiasis is a water-based parasitic disease that affects over 250 million people.
Control efforts have long been in vain, which is one reason why schistosomiasis is …

Update on laboratory diagnosis of amoebiasis

S Saidin, N Othman, R Noordin - European Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Amoebiasis, an enteric protozoan disease caused by Entamoeba histolytica, is a public
health problem in many developing countries, causing up to 100,000 fatal cases annually …

Cell-free DNA as a diagnostic tool for human parasitic infections

KG Weerakoon, DP McManus - Trends in parasitology, 2016 - cell.com
Parasites often cause devastating diseases and represent a significant public health and
economic burden. More accurate and convenient diagnostic tools are needed in support of …

Molecular epidemiology, evolution, and phylogeny of Entamoeba spp.

Z Cui, J Li, Y Chen, L Zhang - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2019 - Elsevier
Entamoeba histolytica is a protozoan parasite and the causative agent of amoebiasis in
humans. The estimations of the worldwide burden of amoebiasis by the WHO indicated that …

DNA diagnostics for schistosomiasis control

KG Weerakoon, CA Gordon, DP McManus - Tropical medicine and …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Despite extensive efforts over the last few decades, the global disease burden of
schistosomiasis still remains unacceptably high. This could partly be attributed to the lack of …

SMART-LAMP: A smartphone-operated handheld device for real-time colorimetric point-of-care diagnosis of infectious diseases via loop-mediated isothermal …

J García-Bernalt Diego, P Fernández-Soto… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nucleic acid amplification diagnostics offer outstanding features of sensitivity and specificity.
However, they still lack speed and robustness, require extensive infrastructure, and are …

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification as point-of-care diagnosis for neglected parasitic infections

C Avendaño, MA Patarroyo - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has placed twenty diseases into a group known as
neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), twelve of them being parasitic diseases: Chagas' …

Progress in loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for detection of Schistosoma mansoni DNA: towards a ready-to-use test

J García-Bernalt Diego, P Fernández-Soto… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Schistosomiasis is one of the most prevalent Neglected Tropical Disease, affecting
approximately 250 million people worldwide. Schistosoma mansoni is the most important …