Journal
PARASITOLOGY
Volume 137, Issue 1, Pages 99-110Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S003118200999103X
Keywords
Schistosoma japonicum; schistosomiasis; rodents; domestic animals; infection prevalence; China
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- Royal Society [P07445]
- Kwok Foundation
- Medical Research Council
- Medical Research Council [G0600719B] Funding Source: researchfish
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Schistosoma japonicum remains highly endemic in many counties in China and has recently re-emerged, to a large extent, in previously controlled areas. To test the hypothesis that small rodents and less agriculturally important domestic animals Such as dogs and cats may play an important role in the transmission and potential re-emergence of this disease, an annual investigation of S. japonicum among humans, domestic animals and rodents, combined with detailed surveys of the snail intermediate host, was performed across 3 marshland villages and 3 hilly villages in Anhui province of China over 2 consecutive years. The highest infection prevalence and intensity observed across all mammals was in rodents in the hilly region; while in the marshland, bovines were suspected as the main reservoirs. However, relatively high infection prevalence levels were also found in clogs and cats in both regions. Such results may have implications for the current human- and bovine-oriented control policy for this medically and veterinarily important disease, particularly within the hilly regions of mainland China.
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