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Risk profiling of schistosomiasis using remote sensing: approaches, challenges and outlook

BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a water-based disease that affects an estimated 250 million people, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. The transmission of schistosomiasis is spatially and temporally restricted to freshwater bodies that contain schistosome cercariae released from specific snails that act a...

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Autores principales: Walz, Yvonne, Wegmann, Martin, Dech, Stefan, Raso, Giovanna, Utzinger, Jürg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4406176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25890278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0732-6