Three Gorges Dam: Impact of Water Level Changes on the Density of Schistosome-Transmitting Snail Oncomelania hupensis in Dongting Lake Area, China

BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis remains an important public health issue in China and worldwide. Oncomelania hupensis is the unique intermediate host of schistosoma japonicum, and its change influences the distribution of S. japonica. The Three Gorges Dam (TGD) has substantially changed the ecology and...

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Published in:PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Main Authors: Wu, Jin-Yi, Zhou, Yi-Biao, Chen, Yue, Liang, Song, Li, Lin-Han, Zheng, Sheng-Bang, Zhu, Shao-ping, Ren, Guang-Hui, Song, Xiu-Xia, Jiang, Qing-Wu
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482622/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26114956
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003882
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