Assessing environmental factors associated with regional schistosomiasis prevalence in Anhui Province, Peoples’ Republic of China using a geographical detector method

Assessing environmental factors associated with regional schistosomiasis prevalence in Anhui Province, Peoples’ Republic of China using a geographical detector method

Abstract Background Schistosomiasis is a water-borne disease caused by trematode worms belonging to genus Schistosoma, which is prevalent most of the developing world. Transmission of the disease is usually associated with multiple biological characteristics and social factors but also factors can p...

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Main Authors: Yi Hu, Congcong Xia, Shizhu Li, Michael P. Ward, Can Luo, Fenghua Gao, Qizhi Wang, Shiqing Zhang, Zhijie Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2017-04-01
Series:Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Subjects:
Schistosoma japonicum
Geographical detector
Spatial variation analysis
Environmental factors
Geographic information systems
China
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40249-017-0299-x

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