Schistosome infection in Senegal is associated with different spatial extents of risk and ecological drivers for Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni.

• Main Authors: Isabel J Jones (Author), Susanne H Sokolow (Author), Andrew J Chamberlin (Author), Andrea J Lund (Author), Nicolas Jouanard (Author), Lydie Bandagny (Author), Raphaël Ndione (Author), Simon Senghor (Author), Anne-Marie Schacht (Author), Gilles Riveau (Author), Skylar R Hopkins (Author), Jason R Rohr (Author), Justin V Remais (Author), Kevin D Lafferty (Author), Armand M Kuris (Author), Chelsea L Wood (Author), Giulio De Leo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Schistosome parasites infect more than 200 million people annually, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, where people may be co-infected with more than one species of the parasite. Infection risk for any single species is determined, in part, by the distribution of its obligate intermediate host snail. As...