schistosome
blood fluke

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The chronic urinary carrier state occurs in those who have Schistosoma (parasitic blood fluke).

The best studied group, the blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma, infect and cause disease in humans.

There are a number of different families of blood fluke including the Schistosomatidae.

Schistosoma japonicum is the only human blood fluke that occurs in China.

Those infected with blood flukes had significantly higher rates of malaria attacks than those who were not.

Furthermore, children with the highest counts of blood flukes also had the most malaria attacks.

During early 1980s Chinese scientists, by serendipity, discovered that artemether was not only an antimalarial agent, but also effective against the blood flukes.

It is also known as Manson's blood fluke or swamp fever.

The cause is a blood fluke, the Schistosoma mansoni, which depends on an aquatic snail as an intermediate host.