Asrat Meleko, Sarah Li, Dorin Brener Turgeman, Michal Bruck, Nisan Z Kesete, Willemijn Zaadnoordijk, David Rollinson, Galia Sabar, Zvi Bentwich, Rachel Golan
INTRODUCTION: Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease (NTD), remains a public health problem in Ethiopia. Freshwater snails, acting as intermediate hosts, release cercariae, the infectious parasite, into the water, which penetrate human skin that encounters infested waters. The objective of this study was to map snail abundance along rivers and study its association with schistosomiasis infection in communities using these rivers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out at 20 river sites in Mizan Aman city administration, Bench Sheko zone, South West Ethiopia Peoples (SWEP) region, Ethiopia, to study the distribution of host snails and transmission sites for intestinal schistosomiasis...
September 28, 2022: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease