Robert F Sturrock
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Abbasi I, King C, Sturrock R, Kariuki C, Muchiri E, Hamburger J
Am J Trop Med Hyg
. 2007 May;
76(5):950-5.
PMID: 17488921
Schistosoma haematobium infects nearly 150 million people, primarily in Africa, and is transmitted by select species of local bulinid snails. These snails can host other related trematode species as well,...
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King C, Sturrock R, Kariuki H, Hamburger J
Trends Parasitol
. 2006 Oct;
22(12):575-82.
PMID: 17030017
Current population-based schistosomiasis treatment programs are a first step to reducing the global burden of Schistosoma-related disease; however, they might not dramatically reduce parasite transmission in highly endemic areas. Consequently,...
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Dunne D, Vennervald B, Booth M, Joseph S, Fitzsimmons C, Cahen P, et al.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
. 2005 Dec;
100(3):216-23.
PMID: 16359714
We report multidisciplinary studies on schistosomiasis which have been ongoing in the fishing communities of Piida, Booma, Bugoigo and Walakuba, on Lake Albert, Uganda, since 1996. Schistosomiasis is the major...
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Hamburger J, Hoffman O, Kariuki H, Muchiri E, Ouma J, Koech D, et al.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
. 2005 Jan;
71(6):765-73.
PMID: 15642969
Levels of prepatent Schistosoma haematobium infection were monitored in intermediate host snails (Bulinus nasutus) collected from transmission sites in coastal Kenya, using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay amplifying the...
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Kariuki H, Clennon J, Brady M, Kitron U, Sturrock R, Ouma J, et al.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
. 2004 Apr;
70(4):449-56.
PMID: 15100463
In the Msambweni area of the Kwale District in Kenya, an area endemic for Schistosoma haematobium, potential intermediate-host snails were systematically surveyed in water bodies associated with human contact that...
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Fallon P, Gibbons J, Vervenne R, Richardson E, Fulford A, Kiarie S, et al.
J Infect Dis
. 2003 Mar;
187(6):939-45.
PMID: 12660940
Adults and children have differences in their susceptibility to schistosomiasis. The relative influences of age-dependent innate resistance and acquired immunity in the differences between susceptibility to schistosomiasis are difficult to...