TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gray, Darren
AU  - Bergquist, Robert
AB  - Current efforts to limit the ravages of schistosomiasis are pushing the world closer to eliminating a chronic infection that has been associated with human life in the tropics since time immemorial. This notwithstanding, the disease remains a scourge for large populations in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, and the main part of this book is made up by papers dealing with its current distribution, discussing ways and means to establish and implement improved control approaches. While chemotherapy limits the symptoms caused by schistosomiasis, the number of infected people will not decrease until the parasite's life cycle is interrupted. To that end, some papers focus on the intermediate snail host, which is notoriously difficult to control, while others discuss human hygiene and sanitation. The latter approach not only prevents infection through avoiding people being infected from the snail, but more importantly, also stops people infecting the snail by leaving contagious feces and urine in nature. With morbidity reduced by chemotherapy, the immediate target now is the interruption of transmission to be achieved by new tools, such as the novel chemotherapies, improved diagnostics (for humans, animals, and snails), and vaccines discussed in several of the papers. As made clear in this book, a complex infection requires new tools as well as work on many fronts, above all; however, a clear idea is needed as to how to skillfully combine the tools available and sustain implemented control activities.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03921-358-0
ID  - OAPEN ID: 42512
KW  - n/a
KW  - Cambodia
KW  - schistosomiasis elimination
KW  - chemotherapy
KW  - Côte d’Ivoire
KW  - systems thinking
KW  - Schistosomiasis mansoni
KW  - control and elimination
KW  - neglected tropical diseases
KW  - drug discovery
KW  - systems epidemiology
KW  - guidelines
KW  - schistosomiasis
KW  - Central Africa
KW  - goals
KW  - mapping
KW  - Africa
KW  - cattle
KW  - zoonosis
KW  - systematic non-compliance
KW  - Lao PDR
KW  - Sm14
KW  - POC-CCA
KW  - planorbidae
KW  - complexity
KW  - distribution
KW  - remote-sensing
KW  - Neotricula aperta
KW  - sanitation
KW  - Biomphalaria glabrata
KW  - Schistosomiasis
KW  - international space station
KW  - Mayuge
KW  - elimination
KW  - spatio-temporal epidemiology
KW  - goats
KW  - FABP
KW  - artemether
KW  - interdisciplinarity
KW  - praziquantel
KW  - soil-transmitted-helminthiasis
KW  - Caribbean
KW  - health education
KW  - snail
KW  - Schistosoma haematobium
KW  - snail resistance
KW  - 28S ribosomal DNA
KW  - WIPO Re:Search
KW  - intermediate snail host
KW  - Schistosoma malayensis
KW  - Gabon
KW  - transmission
KW  - soil-transmitted helminths
KW  - combination therapy
KW  - S. mansoni
KW  - climate change
KW  - domestic animals
KW  - Schistosoma mansoni
KW  - diagnosis
KW  - Schistosoma japonicum
KW  - leishmaniasis
KW  - modelling
KW  - public-private partnerships
KW  - GIS
KW  - ECOSTRESS
KW  - young adults
KW  - Oncomelania hupensis
KW  - PCR
KW  - Bulinus truncatus
KW  - gene drive
KW  - worldview
KW  - S. japonicum zoonosis
KW  - coverage rate
KW  - phylogeography
KW  - cross-sector collaboration
KW  - epidemiology
KW  - preventive chemotherapy
KW  - MDA coverage
KW  - China
KW  - operational research
KW  - transmission control
KW  - satellite
KW  - high-sensitivity diagnostics
KW  - loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)
KW  - sheep
KW  - polymerase chain reaction
KW  - BIO Ventures for Global Health
KW  - bovines
KW  - Kato-Katz
KW  - vaccine development
KW  - treatment-opportunities
KW  - Philippines
KW  - buffalo
KW  - Schistosoma mekongi
KW  - control
KW  - Schistosoma
KW  - vector control
KW  - vaccine
KW  - parasite
KW  - Asia
KW  - transgenic snail
KW  - snail control
KW  - DNA
KW  - capacity-building
KW  - Uganda
KW  - pooled samples
L1  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1536
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57221
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783039213580
SN  - 9783039213573
TI  - Prospects for Schistosomiasis Eliminationnull
ER  - 
