1. Toward Sustainable and Comprehensive Control of Schistosomiasis in China: Lessons from Sichuan.
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Seto, Edmund Y. W., Remais, Justin V., Carlton, Elizabeth J., Shuo Wang, Song Liang, Brindley, Paul J., Dongchuan Qiu, Spear, Robert C., Long-De Wang, Tian-Ping Wang, Hong-Gen Chen, Xing-Qi Dong, Li-Ying Wang, Yang Hao, Bergquist, Robert, and Xiao-Nong Zhou
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DEBATE ,SCHISTOSOMIASIS prevention ,DISEASE prevalence ,SCHISTOSOMA japonicum ,HEALTH promotion ,HEALTH programs ,PREVENTIVE medicine - Abstract
The article presents a debate regarding sustainable and comprehensive control of schistosomiasis in China. It offers the perspective of various authors including Edmund Seto, Justin Remais and Elizabeth Carlton regarding the effort of the country to reduce the prevalence of Schistosoma japonicum through a strategy based on chemotherapy and snail control. It discusses the difficulty of the country to eliminate the prevalence of the disease due to the high rates of reinfection. It also provides a response by various authors including Li-Ying Wang, Yang Hao, and Robert Bergquist regarding the issue on sustainable implementation of the control strategy in the Chinese national schistosomiasis control program.
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- 2011
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