Effect of an integrated control strategy for schistosomiasis japonica in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China: An evaluation from 2005 to 2008

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Le Ping ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Liang, You Sheng ^a   Tian, Zeng Xi ^b   Hong, Qing Biao ^a   Yang, Kun ^a   Yang, Guo Jing ^a   Dai, Jian Rong ^a   Gao, Yang ^c  

^a JIANGSU INSTITUTE OF PARASITIC DISEASES   (China)

^b Jiangsu Provincial Department of Health   (China)

^c Yangzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Effect evaluation; Integrated control; Oncomelania hupensis; Schistosoma japonicum; Schistosomiasis; The Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

TAP WATER;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHINA; CONTROL STRATEGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FECES; GRASSLAND; HABITAT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SNAIL; WATER SUPPLY; ANIMAL; CATTLE DISEASE; EVALUATION; HEALTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

BOS; GASTROPODA; JAPONICA; ONCOMELANIA HUPENSIS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; RIVERS; RURAL HEALTH; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SNAILS;

EID: 84855180192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-243     Document Type: Article

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