Toward integrated opisthorchiasis control in northeast Thailand: The Lawa project

Acta Tropica

Volumn 141, Issue Part B, 2015, Pages 361-367

  Sripa, Banchob ^a   Tangkawattana, Sirikachorn ^a   Laha, Thewarach ^b   Kaewkes, Sasithorn ^b   Mallory, Frank F ^c   Smith, John F ^a   Wilcox, Bruce A ^a,d,e  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystems health; Integrated control; Lawa model; Opisthorchis viverrini; Thailand

Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFECTIVITY; PARASITIC DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; CYPRINIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; FLOODING; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIASIS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RECYCLING; RURAL POPULATION; THAILAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CYPRINIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; LAKE; OPISTHORCHIS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH;

KHON KAEN [NORTHEASTERN REGION]; NORTHEASTERN REGION; THAILAND;

CYPRINOIDEA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; TREMATODA;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CYPRINIDAE; ECOLOGICAL PARAMETER MONITORING; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LAKES; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; THAILAND;

EID: 84916927318     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.07.017     Document Type: Article

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