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Schistosomiasis Control: Present Situation and Perspectives

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Infectious Tropical Diseases and One Health in Latin America

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Abstract

Schistosomiasis mansoni is an infectious disease of poverty that affects over 2 million people in communities deprived of proper sanitation and safe water supply in Latin America; it is endemic in Brazil, which accounts for 90% of the cases, and Venezuela. This chapter shows that, although infection indices have progressively decreased in the last decades, elimination of this disease as a public health problem, pledged for 2030, will only be achieved with strong interdisciplinary and intersectoral efforts under the One Health approach targeted to the Sustained Development Goals.

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Graeff-Teixeira, C., Pieri, O.S. (2022). Schistosomiasis Control: Present Situation and Perspectives. In: Mehlhorn, H., Heukelbach, J. (eds) Infectious Tropical Diseases and One Health in Latin America. Parasitology Research Monographs, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99712-0_10

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