Example sentences for: schistosomiasis

How can you use “schistosomiasis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Since children born in 1981 would have been 14 years of age at the time of our 1995 HCV study, it can be safely assumed that they were not present at the time of the schistosomiasis campaigns.

  • Schistosomiasis infections, in addition to HCV are hyperendemic in the Nile Delta region [ 14 ] .

  • To model sub-groups of high and low risk groups within houses, we chose an age cutoff of 15 years based on an examination of the age-specific prevalence within our study and based on reports stating that parenteral treatment of schistosomiasis was stopped between 1982 and 1986, with the introduction of praziquintal, an oral drug used to treat the disease [ 22 ] . Further, children under 5 years of age were not eligible for receiving injections during the campaigns.

  • Despite the use of oral drugs for the treatment of schistosomiasis during the past two decades, HCV antibodies were detected in some children below 15 years of age.

  • In contrast, the OR for clustering of HCV infections among houses in which no member reported a history of parenteral treatment for a past schistosomiasis infection was 1.37 (95% CI: 0.92 - 2.05; p = 0.12).


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