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Schistosomiasis is a tropical parasitic disease caused by flatworms of genus Schistomsomes, carried by freshwater snails. It is also known as “snail fever” or “bilharzia.” Infection is contracted via skin contact with contaminated freshwater, and disease results from an inflammatory reaction to worm eggs that are lodged in the intestine or bladder. It affects 200+ million people worldwide, and it is second only to malaria in economic impact in the tropics.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen & Muhammad Hassan

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Bhopal, India

    Samendra Karkhur

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Spencer Center for Vision Research, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Anh N. T. Tran

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  1. Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution, Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation, Waltham, MA, USA

    C. Stephen Foster

  2. Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution, Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation, Waltham, MA, USA

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  3. Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution, Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation, Waltham, MA, USA

    Peter Y. Chang

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Nguyen, Q.D., Hassan, M., Karkhur, S., Tran, A.N.T. (2021). Schistosomiasis. In: Foster, C.S., Anesi, S.D., Chang, P.Y. (eds) Uveitis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52974-1_57

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