Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1722, 2017, Pages

  Sokolow, Susanne H ^a,b   Jones, Isabel J ^a   Jocque, Merlijn ^a   La, Diana ^a   Cords, Olivia ^a   Knight, Anika ^c   Lund, Andrea ^a   Wood, Chelsea L ^d,e   Lafferty, Kevin D ^b,f   Hoover, Christopher M ^g   Collender, Phillip A ^g   Remais, Justin V ^g   Lopez Carr, David ^b   Fisk, Jonathan ^a   Kuris, Armand M ^b   de Leo, Giulio A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEDAILLE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilharzia; Biological control; Dam; Disease control; Planetary health; Schistosome

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CRUSTACEAN; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FLATWORM; HEALTH RISK; HOME RANGE; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PARASITIC DISEASE; POPULATION DECLINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL;

DIAMA DAM; SENEGAL BASIN;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; MACROBRACHIUM; METAPENAEUS BENNETTAE; SCHISTOSOMA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN; PALAEMONIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; PALAEMONIDAE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAILS;

EID: 85018707635     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0127     Document Type: Article

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