Spatio-temporal transmission and environmental determinants of Schistosomiasis Japonica in Anhui Province, China.

• Main Authors: Yi Hu (Author), Rui Li (Author), Robert Bergquist (Author), Henry Lynn (Author), Fenghua Gao (Author), Qizhi Wang (Author), Shiqing Zhang (Author), Liqian Sun (Author), Zhijie Zhang (Author), Qingwu Jiang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Schistosomiasis japonica still remains of public health and economic significance in China, especially in the lake and marshland areas along the Yangtze River Basin, where the control of transmission has proven difficult. In the study, we investigated spatio-temporal variations of S. japo...