Assessing environmental factors associated with regional schistosomiasis prevalence in Anhui Province, Peoples' Republic of China using a geographical detector method

• Main Authors: Yi Hu (Author), Congcong Xia (Author), Shizhu Li (Author), Michael P. Ward (Author), Can Luo (Author), Fenghua Gao (Author), Qizhi Wang (Author), Shiqing Zhang (Author), Zhijie Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Schistosomiasis is a water-borne disease caused by trematode worms belonging to genus Schistosoma, which is prevalent most of the developing world. Transmission of the disease is usually associated with multiple biological characteristics and social factors but also factors can p...