Model-based insights into multi-host transmission and control of schistosomiasis

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 0014-0015

  Liang, Song ^a   Spear, Robert C ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHILIPPINES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FECES; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHILIPPINES; RATS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SNAILS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 38849113161     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050023     Document Type: Short Survey

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