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  Schistosomiasis control in China : the successful example of Jiangxi province

  Zhongdao Wu, Yiwen Liu, Heinz Mehlhorn, editors.

  Summary: This book covers all details for a successful control and elimination strategy against propagation of deadly liver and intestinal flukes of the genus Schistosoma in China. Cancer due to schistosomiasis is still common in subtropical countries and affords hundred thousands of human and animal deaths per year. Expert authors play close attention to the biology and morphologic aspects of Schistosoma species as well as the history and status quo of schistosomiasis epidemiology. In a unique way, the present work illustrates the need to involve strategic measurements, and to control both adult worms and larval parasite stages. With a special focus on Jiangxi Province, the authors present an effective management plan, ranging from intermediate host snail control to diagnostic tools, medical aid, as well as public health education. This approach from China can be used as blueprint in other countries hit by the same worm infections. The contents of this book will thus be meaningful for academics and practitioners in the fields of parasitology, public health, as well as human and veterinary medicine.
  
  Contents:
  Schistosomes: Trematode Worms That Endanger Still Today Millions of Humans and Animals
  The History and Experiences of Schistosomiasis Control in China
  Epidemic Characteristics of Schistosomiasis in Jiangxi Province
  The Course of Schistosomiasis Control in Jiangxi
  Experiences and Cases on Schistosomiasis Control Research
  Eliminating Plan and Challenges
  Epilogue.

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  Immundiagnostische Ergebnisse bei der Amöbiasis. Die Leistung der Gegenstrom-Immunelektrophorese im Vergleich zu drei anderen Immuntests. [Immunodiagnostic results of amoebiasis. The value of counter immunoelectrophoresis in comparison to three other immunotests (author's transl)].

  Mannweiler E, Lederer I.

  Zentralbl Bakteriol Orig A. 1978 Apr;240(3):403-8.

  63 cases of extraintestinal amoebiasis, 17 cases of intestinal amoebiasis, and 25 selected control persons were examined for serum antibodies to antigen from E. histolytica using the counter-immunoelectrophoresis, the complement fixation test, the indirect haemagglutination test and the latex agglutination test. In addition counter-immunoelectrophoresis was applied to 41 sera from patients with extraintestinal amoebiasis whose other serological results were included in a previous study. Even with the employment of our immunological methods, the test results can be used for diagnostic purposes only when they are in accordance with the clinical picture and the exposure. Complete failures of the immuno-diagnostic tests did not occur in our study. On the other hand, there are persons with no symptoms of amoebiasis who have antibodies in two tests, among them sometimes the counter-immunoelectrophoresis, with levels corresponding to those of intestinal or extra-intestinal amoebiasis.

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