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Schistosomiasis Japonica Control in Domestic Animals: Progress and Experiences in China

Schistosomiasis japonica, caused by Schistosoma japonicum, is an endemic, zoonotic parasitic disease. Domestic animals, particularly bovines, are thought to play an important role in transmission of the disease. Historically, China was the country mostly severely impacted by schistosomiasis japonica...

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Autores principales: Cao, Zhiguo, Huang, Yinyin, Wang, Tianping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29312176
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02464
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description Schistosomiasis japonica, caused by Schistosoma japonicum, is an endemic, zoonotic parasitic disease. Domestic animals, particularly bovines, are thought to play an important role in transmission of the disease. Historically, China was the country mostly severely impacted by schistosomiasis japonica, but now prevalence and morbidity have been greatly reduced. Since the mid-1950s when China launched the National Schistosomiasis Control Program, the control of schistosomiasis in domestic animals has been carried out almost synchronously with that of human schistosomiasis, and this concept has been proven to be effective. Generally, the campaign of schistosomiasis japonica control in domestic animals in China went through four phases over the past six decades, namely, the large-scale epidemiological investigation phase, the case screening and small-scale chemotherapy phase, the mass chemotherapy phase, and the infection source control phase. These distinct phases were responsive to changing disease epidemiology, socioeconomic development, and technological advances, resulting in successful attainment of disease control goals.
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spelling pubmed-57351092018-01-08 Schistosomiasis Japonica Control in Domestic Animals: Progress and Experiences in China Cao, Zhiguo Huang, Yinyin Wang, Tianping Front Microbiol Microbiology Schistosomiasis japonica, caused by Schistosoma japonicum, is an endemic, zoonotic parasitic disease. Domestic animals, particularly bovines, are thought to play an important role in transmission of the disease. Historically, China was the country mostly severely impacted by schistosomiasis japonica, but now prevalence and morbidity have been greatly reduced. Since the mid-1950s when China launched the National Schistosomiasis Control Program, the control of schistosomiasis in domestic animals has been carried out almost synchronously with that of human schistosomiasis, and this concept has been proven to be effective. Generally, the campaign of schistosomiasis japonica control in domestic animals in China went through four phases over the past six decades, namely, the large-scale epidemiological investigation phase, the case screening and small-scale chemotherapy phase, the mass chemotherapy phase, and the infection source control phase. These distinct phases were responsive to changing disease epidemiology, socioeconomic development, and technological advances, resulting in successful attainment of disease control goals. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5735109/ /pubmed/29312176 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02464 Text en Copyright © 2017 Cao, Huang and Wang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Cao, Zhiguo
Huang, Yinyin
Wang, Tianping
Schistosomiasis Japonica Control in Domestic Animals: Progress and Experiences in China
title Schistosomiasis Japonica Control in Domestic Animals: Progress and Experiences in China
title_full Schistosomiasis Japonica Control in Domestic Animals: Progress and Experiences in China
title_fullStr Schistosomiasis Japonica Control in Domestic Animals: Progress and Experiences in China
title_full_unstemmed Schistosomiasis Japonica Control in Domestic Animals: Progress and Experiences in China
title_short Schistosomiasis Japonica Control in Domestic Animals: Progress and Experiences in China
title_sort schistosomiasis japonica control in domestic animals: progress and experiences in china
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29312176
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02464
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