Five-Year Longitudinal Assessment of the Downstream Impact on Schistosomiasis Transmission following Closure of the Three Gorges Dam

Schistosomiasis, caused by Schistosoma japonicum, is a significant parasitic disease and public health problem in China. How the parasite is transmitted there can be categorized into four distinct modes (modes I–IV) and it is predicted that the Three Gorges Dam, recently completed, will affect the w...

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Main Authors: Gray, Darren J., Thrift, Aaron P., Williams, Gail M., Zheng, Feng, Li, Yue-Sheng, Guo, Jiagang, Chen, Honggen, Wang, Tianping, Xu, Xin Jiang, Zhu, Rong, Zhu, Hongqing, Cao, Chun Li, Lin, Dan Dan, Zhao, Zhen Yuan, Li, Robert S., Davis, George M., McManus, Donald P.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323517/