[HTML][HTML] New diagnostic tools in schistosomiasis

J Utzinger, SL Becker, L Van Lieshout… - Clinical microbiology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Schistosomiasis is a water-based parasitic disease that affects over 250 million people.
Control efforts have long been in vain, which is one reason why schistosomiasis is …

Spatial distribution of schistosomiasis and treatment needs in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and geostatistical analysis

YS Lai, P Biedermann, UF Ekpo, A Garba… - The Lancet infectious …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Schistosomiasis affects more than 200 million individuals, mostly in sub-
Saharan Africa, but empirical estimates of the disease burden in this region are unavailable …

[HTML][HTML] Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change

C Mora, T McKenzie, IM Gaw, JM Dean… - Nature climate …, 2022 - nature.com
It is relatively well accepted that climate change can affect human pathogenic diseases;
however, the full extent of this risk remains poorly quantified. Here we carried out a …

Climate change and the neglected tropical diseases

M Booth - Advances in parasitology, 2018 - Elsevier
Climate change is expected to impact across every domain of society, including health. The
majority of the world's population is susceptible to pathological, infectious disease whose life …

The effect of climate change and the snail-schistosome cycle in transmission and bio-control of schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa

TA Adekiya, RT Aruleba, BE Oyinloye… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the next century, global warming, due to changes in climatic factors, is expected to have
an enormous influence on the interactions between pathogens and their hosts. Over the …

Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach

CA Cizauskas, CJ Carlson… - Royal Society …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite the number of virulent pathogens that are projected to benefit from global change
and to spread in the next century, we suggest that a combination of coextinction risk and …

[HTML][HTML] River networks as ecological corridors: A coherent ecohydrological perspective

A Rinaldo, M Gatto, I Rodriguez-Iturbe - Advances in Water Resources, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper draws together several lines of argument to suggest that an ecohydrological
framework, ie laboratory, field and theoretical approaches focused on hydrologic controls on …

Tracing the future of epidemics: Coincident niche distribution of host animals and disease incidence revealed climate‐correlated risk shifts of main zoonotic diseases …

B Cao, C Bai, K Wu, T La, Y Su, L Che… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate has critical roles in the origin, pathogenesis and transmission of infectious zoonotic
diseases. However, large‐scale epidemiologic trend and specific response pattern of …

Schistosomes, snails and climate change: current trends and future expectations

AS Stensgaard, P Vounatsou, ME Sengupta, J Utzinger - Acta tropica, 2019 - Elsevier
The exact impact of climate change on schistosomiasis, a disease caused by a blood fluke
that affects more than 250 million people mainly in tropical and subtropical countries, is …

Predicting the effects of climate change on Schistosoma mansoni transmission in eastern Africa

N McCreesh, G Nikulin, M Booth - Parasites & vectors, 2015 - Springer
Background Survival and fitness attributes of free-living and sporocyst schistosome life-
stages and their intermediate host snails are sensitive to water temperature. Climate change …