Genetic Evidence of Contemporary Dispersal of the Intermediate Snail Host of Schistosoma japonicum: Movement of an NTD Host Is Facilitated by Land Use and Landscape Connectivity.

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Jennifer R Head (مؤلف), Howard Chang (مؤلف), Qunna Li (مؤلف), Christopher M Hoover (مؤلف), Thomas Wilke (مؤلف), Catharina Clewing (مؤلف), Elizabeth J Carlton (مؤلف), Song Liang (مؤلف), Ding Lu (مؤلف), Bo Zhong (مؤلف), Justin V Remais (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:While the dispersal of hosts and vectors-through active or passive movement-is known to facilitate the spread and re-emergence of certain infectious diseases, little is known about the movement ecology of Oncomelania spp., intermediate snail host of the parasite Schistosoma japonicum, and...