ArticleNature communications2018
Agrochemicals increase risk of human schistosomiasis by supporting higher densities of intermediate hosts.
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- Pooled it
- Effects of agrochemical pollution on schistosomiasis transmission: a systematic review and modelling analysis.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2020Pooled it
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- Modeling how and why aquatic vegetation removal can free rural households from poverty-disease traps.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Schistosomiasis transmission: A machine learning analysis reveals the importance of agrochemicals on snail abundance in Rwanda.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Large-scale spatial drivers of avian schistosomes in Northern Michigan inland lakes.Parasitology · 2024Article
- Expanding the swimmer's itch pool of the Benelux: a first record of the neurotropic Trichobilharzia regenti and potential link to human infection.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the TLR3 involvement during Schistosoma japonicum-induced pathology.BMC immunology · 2024Article
- Schistosoma transmission: scaling-up competence from hosts to ecosystems.Trends in parasitology · 2023Review
- Effects of Land-Use and Environmental Factors on Snail Distribution and Trematode Infection in Ethiopia.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Temperature affects predation of schistosome-competent snails by a novel invader, the marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis.PloS one · 2023Article
- Exploring agricultural land-use and childhood malaria associations in sub-Saharan Africa.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Transmission potential of human schistosomes can be driven by resource competition among snail intermediate hosts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Opportunity or catastrophe? effect of sea salt on host-parasite survival and reproduction.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Invasive snails, parasite spillback, and potential parasite spillover drive parasitic diseases of Hippopotamus amphibius in artificial lakes of Zimbabwe.BMC biology · 2021Article
- Size-asymmetric competition among snails disrupts production of human-infectious Schistosoma mansoni cercariae.Ecology · 2021Article
- Interventions can shift the thermal optimum for parasitic disease transmission.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Invasion and Dispersal ofFrontiers in medicine · 2021Review
- Screening and identification of abiotic stress-responsive efficient antifungalBiotechnologia · 2021Article
- Effect of Agrochemical Exposure on Schistosoma mansoni Cercariae Survival and Activity.Environmental toxicology and chemistry · 2020Article
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Abstract
Schistosomiasis is a snail-borne parasitic disease that ranks among the most important water-based diseases of humans in developing countries. Increased prevalence and spread of human schistosomiasis to non-endemic areas has been consistently linked with water resource management related to agricultural expansion. However, the role of agrochemical pollution in human schistosome transmission remains unexplored, despite strong evidence of agrochemicals increasing snail-borne diseases of wildlife and a projected 2- to 5-fold increase in global agrochemical use by 2050. Using a field mesocosm experiment, we show that environmentally relevant concentrations of fertilizer, a herbicide, and an insecticide, individually and as mixtures, increase densities of schistosome-infected snails by increasing the algae snails eat and decreasing densities of snail predators. Epidemiological models indicate that these agrochemical effects can increase transmission of schistosomes. Identifying agricultural practices or agrochemicals that minimize disease risk will be critical to meeting growing food demands while improving human wellbeing.
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