PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | schistosomiasis |
| Symptom | C0021311|infections |
| Sentences | 4 |
| PubMedID- 25685450 | schistosomiasis has been associated with several bacterial co-infections including salmonella, tuberculosis, staphylococcus and sexually transmitted diseases including neisseria gonorrhea, chlamydia trachomatis, mycoplasma genitalium, and trichomonas vaginalis . |
| PubMedID- 23962504 | In conclusion, ht is not recommended for diagnosing intestinal schistosomiasis in populations with light infections, considering the complexity of the procedure and its lack of effectiveness with fecal amounts higher than 0.5 g even at optimized conditions. |
| PubMedID- 21267065 | The nine other diagnostic tests evaluated demonstrated a good ability to identify schistosomiasis patients with light infections, with sensitivities in the range of 92.0% (95% ci: 86.7–97.3%) to 98.0% (95% ci: 95.3–100.0%). |
| PubMedID- 23696910 | It is estimated that more than half of all infections with schistosomiasis are missed in cross sectional studies relying on the observation of only one fecal smear, necessitating the need to perform multiple smears . |
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