From innovation to application: social-ecological context, diagnostics, drugs and integrated control of schistosomiasis.

J, Utzinger; EK, N'goran; CR, Caffrey; J, Keiser

doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.08.020

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From innovation to application: social-ecological context, diagnostics, drugs and integrated control of schistosomiasis.

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Utzinger J

N'goran EK

Caffrey CR

Abstract

Compared to malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, schistosomiasis remains a truly neglected tropical disease. Schistosomiasis, perhaps more than any other disease, is entrenched in prevailing social-ecological systems, since transmission is governed by human behaviour (e.g. open defecation and pattern...

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