Sources and distribution of surface water fecal contamination and prevalence of schistosomiasis in a Brazilian village.
The relationship between poor sanitation and the parasitic infection schistosomiasis is well-known, but still rarely investigated directly and quantitatively. In a Brazilian village we correlated the spatial concentration of human fecal contamination of its main river and the prevalence of schistoso...
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Main Authors: | Rafael Ponce-Terashima (Author), Amber M Koskey (Author), Mitermayer G Reis (Author), Sandra L McLellan (Author), Ronald E Blanton (Author) |
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2014-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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