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Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns
Dams have long been associated with elevated burdens of human schistosomiasis, but how dams increase disease is not always clear, in part because dams have many ecological and socio-economic effects. A recent hypothesis argues that dams block reproduction of the migratory river prawns that eat the s...
Autores principales: | Sokolow, Susanne H., Jones, Isabel J., Jocque, Merlijn, La, Diana, Cords, Olivia, Knight, Anika, Lund, Andrea, Wood, Chelsea L., Lafferty, Kevin D., Hoover, Christopher M., Collender, Phillip A., Remais, Justin V., Lopez-Carr, David, Fisk, Jonathan, Kuris, Armand M., De Leo, Giulio A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5413875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28438916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0127 |
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