Environmental intervention as a tool for control of schistosomiasis: suggestions from a field study in Northeast Brazil

• Egile Nagusiak: Kloetzel Kurt (Egilea), Chieffi Pedro Paulo (Egilea), Carrilho Flair José (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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The present survey from the State of Alagoas (Brazil) emphasized, once again, the importance of peridomestic or neighbourhood foci in the transmission of schistosomiasis mansoni. Although the study area consisted of a compact and densely populated urban community (Bairro Frio, União dos Palmares co...