The potential risk of Schistosoma mansoni transmission by the invasive freshwater snail Biomphalaria straminea in South China.

• Main Authors: DaTao Lin (Author), Xin Zeng (Author), Benjamin Sanogo (Author), Ping He (Author), Suoyu Xiang (Author), Shuling Du (Author), YanHua Zhang (Author), Lifu Wang (Author), Shuo Wan (Author), XingDa Zeng (Author), Ya Yang (Author), ZhiYue Lv (Author), YouSheng Liang (Author), ZhuoHui Deng (Author), Jerome Ho-Lam Hui (Author), DongJuan Yuan (Author), Tao Ding (Author), ZhongDao Wu (Author), Xi Sun (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Schistosomes infect more than 200 million people worldwide, and globally, over 700 million people are at risk of infection. The snail Biomphalaria straminea, as one of the intermediate hosts of Schistosoma mansoni, consecutively invaded Hong Kong in 1973, raising great concern in China. In this stud...