Differentiating snail intermediate hosts of Schistosoma spp. using molecular approaches: fundamental to successful integrated control mechanism in Africa

• Main Authors: Eniola Michael Abe (Author), Wei Guan (Author), Yun-Hai Guo (Author), Kokouvi Kassegne (Author), Zhi-Qiang Qin (Author), Jing Xu (Author), Jun-Hu Chen (Author), Uwem Friday Ekpo (Author), Shi-Zhu Li (Author), Xiao-Nong Zhou (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Snail intermediate hosts play active roles in the transmission of snail-borne trematode infections in Africa. A good knowledge of snail-borne diseases epidemiology particularly snail intermediate host populations would provide the necessary impetus to complementing existing contr...