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Schistosomiasis

"Schistosomiasis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Infection with flukes (trematodes) of the genus SCHISTOSOMA. Three species produce the most frequent clinical diseases: SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM (endemic in Africa and the Middle East), SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI (in Egypt, northern and southern Africa, some West Indies islands, northern 2/3 of South America), and SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM (in Japan, China, the Philippines, Celebes, Thailand, Laos). S. mansoni is often seen in Puerto Ricans living in the United States. (Merck Manual, 15th ed)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Schistosomiasis" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Schistosomiasis" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 30 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1998 and 2013
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