Risk prediction of two types of potential snail habitats in Anhui Province of China: Model-based approaches.

• Main Authors: Jun Zhang (Author), Ming Yue (Author), Yi Hu (Author), Robert Bergquist (Author), Chuan Su (Author), Fenghua Gao (Author), Zhi-Guo Cao (Author), Zhijie Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Elimination of the intermediate snail host of Schistosoma is the most effective way to control schistosomiasis and the most important first step is to accurately identify the snail habitats. Due to the substantial resources required for traditional, manual snail-searching in the field, and potential...