Aquatic macrophytes and macroinvertebrate predators affect densities of snail hosts and local production of schistosome cercariae that cause human schistosomiasis.

• Main Authors: Christopher J E Haggerty (Author), Sidy Bakhoum (Author), David J Civitello (Author), Giulio A De Leo (Author), Nicolas Jouanard (Author), Raphael A Ndione (Author), Justin V Remais (Author), Gilles Riveau (Author), Simon Senghor (Author), Susanne H Sokolow (Author), Souleymane Sow (Author), Caitlin Wolfe (Author), Chelsea L Wood (Author), Isabel Jones (Author), Andrew J Chamberlin (Author), Jason R Rohr (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Schistosomiasis is responsible for the second highest burden of disease among neglected tropical diseases globally, with over 90 percent of cases occurring in African regions where drugs to treat the disease are only sporadically available. Additionally, human re-infection after treatment...