Molluscicidal effectiveness of Luo-Wei, a novel plant-derived molluscicide, against Oncomelania hupensis, Biomphalaria alexandrina and Bulinus truncatus

• Main Authors: Tie-Wu Jia (Author), Wei Wang (Author), Le-Ping Sun (Author), Shan Lv (Author), Kun Yang (Author), Neng-Min Zhang (Author), Xi-Bao Huang (Author), Jian-Bing Liu (Author), Han-Cheng Liu (Author), Rui-Hua Liu (Author), Fathia A. Gawish (Author), Mohamed R. Habib (Author), Mohamed A. El-Emam (Author), Charles H. King (Author), Xiao-Nong Zhou (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Control of snail intermediate hosts has been proved to be a fast and efficient approach for interrupting the transmission of schistosomiasis. Some plant extracts have shown obvious molluscicidal activity, and a new compound Luo-Wei, also named tea-seed distilled saponin (TDS), wa...