Schistosomiasis in Malawi: a systematic review

World Health Report

2013 • 1,764 citations

The global status of schistosomiasis and its control

2000 • 1,374 citations

Reassessment of the cost of chronic helmintic infection: a meta-analysis of disability-related outcomes in endemic schistosomiasis

2005 • 867 citations

Prevention and control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis : report of a WHO expert committee

2002 • 742 citations

Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis: common drugs for treatment and control

2004 • 317 citations

Human Schistosomiasis

1994 • 303 citations

Patterns in Parasite Epidemiology: The Peak Shift

1998 • 256 citations

A review of female genital schistosomiasis

2012 • 256 citations

Sustaining the drive to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases : second WHO report on neglected tropical diseases

2013 • 238 citations

Schistosomiasis in African infants and preschool children: let them now be treated!

2013 • 181 citations

Epidemiology and control of human schistosomiasis in Tanzania

2012 • 162 citations

Schistosomiasis in Lake Malawi

1996 • 146 citations

Time delays between patient and laboratory selectively affect accuracy of helminth diagnosis

2006 • 125 citations

Urban/rural differences in prevalence and risk factors for intestinal helminth infection in southern Malawi

2000 • 119 citations

Evidence for an improvement in cognitive function following treatment of Schistosoma japonicum infection in Chinese primary schoolchildren.

1999 • 115 citations

Female genital schistosomiasis due to Schistosoma haematobium Clinical and parasitological findings in women in rural Malawi

1996 • 111 citations

Schistosomiasis among Travelers: New Aspects of an Old Disease

2006 • 111 citations

Prevalence Distribution and Risk Factors for Schistosoma hematobium Infection among School Children in Blantyre, Malawi

2009 • 103 citations

Female genital schistosomiasis (FGS): relationship between gynecological and histopathological findings

1996 • 101 citations

Strategic emphases for tropical diseases research: a TDR perspective

2002 • 100 citations

Control of schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa: progress made, new opportunities and remaining challenges

2009 • 88 citations

Schistosomiasis in pre-school-age children and their mothers in Chikhwawa district, Malawi with notes on characterization of schistosomes and snails

2014 • 80 citations

High prevalence of schistosomiasis in Mbita and its adjacent islands of Lake Victoria, western Kenya

2012 • 80 citations

Controlling Vectors and Hosts of Parasitic Diseases Using Fishes

1997 • 66 citations

Acute Pulmonary Schistosomiasis in Travelers Returning from Lake Malawi, Sub‐Saharan Africa

1999 • 65 citations

Integrated community-directed intervention for schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths in western Kenya – a pilot study

2012 • 58 citations

Schistosomiasis in Lake Malawi: Relationship of Fish and Intermediate Host Density to Prevalence of Human Infection

2006 • 54 citations

A national survey of the prevalence of schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths in Malaŵi

2004 • 53 citations

Schistosomiasis in Travelers and Expatriates

1996 • 53 citations

Schistosomiasis in Lake Malaŵi Villages

2011 • 48 citations

Alternatives to bodyweight for estimating the dose of praziquantel needed to treat schistosomiasis

1999 • 45 citations

A MASTER'S THESIS

2003 • 44 citations

Re-assessing disability: The impact of schistosomal infection on daily activities among women in Gezira Province, Sudan

1992 • 43 citations

Schistosoma haematobium hotspots in south Nyanza, western Kenya: prevalence, distribution and co-endemicity with Schistosoma mansoni and soil-transmitted helminths

2014 • 43 citations

Analysis of Schistosomiasis haematobium Infection Prevalence and Intensity in Chikhwawa, Malawi: An Application of a Two Part Model

2013 • 42 citations

Persistence of Schistosoma haematobium Infection Despite Multiple Courses of Therapy with Praziquantel

1995 • 42 citations

Subacute pulmonary granulomatous schistosomiasis: high resolution CT appearances—another cause of the halo sign

2001 • 42 citations

The contribution made bySchistosomainfection to non-traumatic disorders of the spinal cord in Malawi

2003 • 40 citations

Once a year school-based deworming with praziquantel and albendazole combination may not be adequate for control of urogenital schistosomiasis and hookworm infection in Matuga District, Kwale County, Kenya

2014 • 40 citations

Disease and economic development;: The impact of parasitic diseases in St. Lucia

1973 • 39 citations

Disease and economic development: The impact of parasitic diseases in St. Lucia

1974 • 36 citations

The schistosome intermediate host,Bulinus nyassanus, is a 'preferred' food for the cichlid fish,Trematocranus placodon, at Cape Maclear, Lake Malawi

2006 • 33 citations

Bilharziasis survey in British West and East Africa, Nyasaland and the Rhodesias.

1956 • 30 citations

Evaluation of public health impact of schistosomiasis.

1989 • 29 citations

Acute Schistosomiasis in Travelers: 14 Years' Experience at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London

2013 • 28 citations

Patterns of helminth infection and relationship to BCG vaccination in Karonga District, northern Malawi

2002 • 27 citations

Bulinus nyassanus is an intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium in Lake Malawi

2001 • 26 citations

Environmental Change and Infectious Diseases

2000 • 25 citations

Schistosomiasis in U.S. Peace Corps volunteers--Malawi, 1992.

1993 • 25 citations

Schistosomiasis Acquired in Lake Malawi

1996 • 24 citations

Diagnosis of female genital schistosomiasis by indirect disease markers: determination of eosinophil cationic protein, neopterin and IgA in vaginal fluid and swab eluates

1996 • 24 citations

Urine reagent strips for diagnosis of schistosomiasis haematobium in women of fertile age

1996 • 23 citations

Molecular phylogenetic investigations of Bulinus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Lake Malawi with comments on the topological incongruence between DNA loci

2007 • 22 citations

Schistosomiasis among Recreational Users of Upper Nile River, Uganda, 2007

2010 • 22 citations

Perception of risk for malaria and schistosomiasis in rural Malawi.

1992 • 21 citations

Surgical pathology in sub-Saharan Africa—volunteering in Malawi

2012 • 20 citations

Pathologic Mucosal Blood Vessels in Active Female Genital Schistosomiasis

2012 • 20 citations

Schistosomiasis in Malawi--a review.

1985 • 19 citations

Sentinel surveillance of Lymphatic filariasis, Schistosomiasis, Soil transmitted helminths and Malaria in rural southern Malawi

2010 • 19 citations

Cough and alterations in semen after a tropical swim.

2007 • 19 citations

Schistosomiasis transmission in Lake Malawi

2004 • 19 citations

An outbreak of schistosomiasis in travellers returning from endemic areas: the importance of rigorous tracing in peer groups exposed to risk of infection

2011 • 18 citations

Acute pulmonary schistosomiasis

2002 • 17 citations

Growing population and ecosystem change increase human schistosomiasis around Lake Malaŵi

2014 • 17 citations

Schistosomiasis prophylaxis in vivo using N,N-Diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET)

2003 • 15 citations

Haematobium Schistosomiasis Presenting in the Netherlands as a Skin Disease

1994 • 14 citations

Crush-resistance of soft-sediment gastropods of Lake Malaŵi: implications for prey selection by Molluscivorous fishes

2011 • 14 citations

Schistosomiasis in Australian travellers to Africa

1997 • 13 citations

Effect of Temperature on Growth, Survival and Reproduction ofBulinus nyassanus(Smith, 1877) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Lake Malawi

2010 • 12 citations

Schistosomiasis Does Not Contribute to Death or Recurrence of Nontyphoid Salmonella Bacteremia in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Malawian Adults

2003 • 11 citations

Perceptions of tropical health risks in mponda, malawi: Attributions of cause, suggested means of risk reduction and preferred treatment

1996 • 11 citations

Schistosoma haematobiumin Lake Malaŵi: susceptibility and molecular diversity of the snail hostsBulinus globosusandB. nyassanus

2008 • 10 citations

Schistosomiasis in Lake Malawi and the Potential Use of Indigenous Fish for Biological Control

2012 • 10 citations

Schistosomiasis in Expatriates in the Arusha Region of Tanzania

2006 • 10 citations

Taxonomy: A Precursor to Understanding Ecological Interactions among Schistosomes, Snail Hosts, and Snail‐Eating Fishes

2007 • 9 citations

Introgression in Lake Malaŵi: Increasing the Threat of Human Urogenital Schistosomiasis?

2013 • 9 citations

Comparison of the Teesdale glass sandwich and Kato-Katz techniques for the diagnosis of Schistosoma mansoni: a double-blind study.

1990 • 7 citations

Preliminary study on the culture and breeding of Bulinus nyassanus (Mollusca: Pulmonata) under laboratory conditions

2006 • 7 citations

The burrowing behaviour ofBulinus nyassanus, intermediate host ofSchistosoma haematobium, in Lake Malaŵi

2012 • 7 citations

Schistosomiasis prevalence in Zomba, Southern Malawi

2014 • 7 citations

Potential of Metriaclima lanisticola (Teleostei: Cichlidae) for biological control of schistosome intermediate host snails

2007 • 7 citations

Schistosomiasis in Leicester

1993 • 7 citations

Organization and decentralization of the Malawi National Bilharzia Control Programme.

1989 • 5 citations

Tropical illness profiles the psychology of illness perception in Malawi

1997 • 5 citations

[A case of bilharziasis diagnosed 10 years later].

2007 • 4 citations

Urinary schistosomiasis in a Japanese man

2004 • 4 citations

[Schistosomiasis imported from Africa].

1995 • 4 citations

Further record of Bulinus truncatus (Mollusca: Planorbidae) for Malawi, with evidence of compatibility with Schistosoma haematobium.

1996 • 4 citations

The epidemiology of schistosomiasis in central Malawi.

1988 • 3 citations

A case bilharziasis in a Japanese male

2004 • 3 citations

A Case of Persistent Urinary Schistosomiasis Transmitted Through the Lake Malawi

2012 • 2 citations

Malawi study signals need for more research on female genital schistosomiasis.

1996 • 2 citations

[A case report: Bilharzial schistosomiasis in the urinary bladder presented with gross hematuria].

2006 • 2 citations

[Family infected bathing in Malawi lake].

1998 • 2 citations

Schistosomiasis in Lake Malawi

1994 • 1 citations

Schistosoma haematobium infection in the female genital mucosa: Immunohistochemical and clinicopathological analyses with respect to HIV target cells and vascularity in cervicovaginal tissue. Cross-sectional studies in Malawi and Madagascar.

2013 • 1 citations

Schistosomiasis as a cause of terminal haematuria in a 14 year old boy in UK

2012 • 1 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations