SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA INTERVENTION STUDY ON POYANG LAKE, CHINA: THE SNAIL'S TALE
| Autor: | Wei-Ping Wu, Donald P. McManus, George M. Davis, Feng Zheng, Gail M. Williams, Hong-Yun Liu, Jia-Gang Guo, Shang biao Lu, Hong Gen Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
biology
Ecology animal diseases food and beverages Schistosomiasis Snail biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Intervention studies Praziquantel SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA biology.animal parasitic diseases Oncomelania hupensis medicine Animal Science and Zoology Socioeconomics China Disease transmission geographic locations Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Malacologia. 49:79-105 |
| ISSN: | 0076-2997 |
| DOI: | 10.4002/1543-8120-49.1.79 |
| Popis: | A U.S. National Institutes of Health-sponsored study was initiated in 1998, ending in 2002, to examine the hypothesis that bovines, buffaloes in particular, were responsible for the persistence of schistosomiasis in human populations living in and around Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Province, P. R. China. The two villages are the focus of this paper, the experimental Jishan Village and the control Hexi Village. The prevalence and intensity of infection of humans and buffaloes were determined. Then, all inhabitants of all the villages were treated with praziquantel, while only the buffaloes of the experimental (intervention) village were treated. Following treatment, rates of reinfection of people in the two villages and buffaloes in the experimental village, as well as the ongoing prevalence of infections in the buffaloes of the control village were monitored annually. Quantitative collections of snails were made pre- and post-flood for a total of nine seasons to determine the density of snails, density of infect... |
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