Schistosomiasis research in the dongting lake region and its impact on local and national treatment and control in China.

• Egile Nagusiak: Donald P McManus (Egilea), Darren J Gray (Egilea), Allen G Ross (Egilea), Gail M Williams (Egilea), Hong-Bin He (Egilea), Yue-Sheng Li (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Schistosomiasis is a chronic and debilitating parasitic disease that has often been neglected because it is a disease of poverty, affecting poor rural communities in the developing world. This is not the case in the People's Republic of China (PRC), where the disease, caused by Schistosoma japo...