Hydrology and density feedbacks control the ecology of intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis across habitats in seasonal climates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 6427-6432

  Perez Saez, Javier ^a   Mande, Theophile ^a   Ceperley, Natalie ^a,b   Bertuzzo, Enrico ^a   Mari, Lorenzo ^c   Gatto, Marino ^d   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring; Freshwater snails; Infection controls; Water based disease

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA PFEIFFERI; BULINUS; BURKINA FASO; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT; HYDROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; ANIMAL; BIOMPHALARIA; ECOSYSTEM; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BIOMPHALARIA; BULINUS; BURKINA FASO; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEASONS;

EID: 84973641641     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1602251113     Document Type: Article

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