Abstract
Large-scale control efforts in sub-Saharan Africa may leave long-term lingering transmission. Large-scale screening of snail infection prevalence by loop-mediated isothermal amplification will enable accurate determination of man-to-snail transmission, as well as the effects of biota in snail habitat on host capacity and thus on snail-to-man transmission. Next-generation sequencing will enable identification of gut content of snails and thus their feeding preferences in hot spots and in non-hot spots, as well as for identification of attractive vegetation types for attracting snails to molluscicides.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1376-1379 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2020 |
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