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Article in Heliyon, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- A reservoir at the gates: nonhuman mammalian hosts for human schistosomiasis in western Africa and the critical challenge for elimination.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2026Pooled it
- Complexity of schistosome vector bulinine snails in Kenya: Insights from nuclear genome size variation, complete mitochondrial genome sequence, and morphometric analysis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- The research contribution of the Schistosomiasis Collection at the Natural History Museum (SCAN): highlights, challenges and future directions.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2025Review
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- Assessment of schistosomiasis transmission in the River Nile at Greater Cairo using malacological surveys and cercariometry.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe epidemiology of human urinary schistosomiasis caused by
resultsA total of 5,034 bulinid snails were collected from 41 different sites and screened for schistosome infections, and out of these, 43 (<1%) were found to be shedding mammalian schistosome cercariae. On analysis using the Polymerase chain reaction- Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (PCR-RFLP) assay, cercariae from 32 snails were identified as
conclusionThe PCR-based assay can potentially be used to support schistosomiasis control efforts, in epidemiological studies of urinary schistosomiasis, or in transmission ecology studies of
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