Global Assessment of Schistosomiasis Control Over the Past Century Shows Targeting the Snail Intermediate Host Works Best

An achievable goal: control and elimination of schistosomiasis

(2015) Lorenzo Savioli et al.   LANCET

An audacious goal: the elimination of schistosomiasis in our lifetime through mass drug administration

(2015) Allen G P Ross et al.   LANCET

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

(2015) Ying-Si Lai et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Reduced transmission of human schistosomiasis after restoration of a native river prawn that preys on the snail intermediate host

(2015) Susanne H. Sokolow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Historical Perspective: Snail Control to Prevent Schistosomiasis

(2015) Charles H. King et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Regulation of laboratory populations of snails (Biomphalaria and Bulinus spp.) by river prawns, Macrobrachium spp. (Decapoda, Palaemonidae): Implications for control of schistosomiasis

(2014) Susanne H. Sokolow et al.   ACTA TROPICA

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010: Interpretation and Implications for the Neglected Tropical Diseases

(2014) Peter J. Hotez et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Surveillance-response systems: the key to elimination of tropical diseases

(2014) Ernest Tambo et al.   Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Preventive chemotherapy as a strategy for elimination of neglected tropical parasitic diseases: endgame challenges

(2013) M. J. Bockarie et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Elimination of Schistosomiasis Transmission in Zanzibar: Baseline Findings before the Onset of a Randomized Intervention Trial

(2013) Stefanie Knopp et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Elimination of tropical disease through surveillance and response

(2013) Xiao-Nong Zhou et al.   Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Praziquantel treatment of school children from single and mixed infection foci of intestinal and urogenital schistosomiasis along the Senegal River Basin: monitoring treatment success and re-infection patterns

(2012) Bonnie L. Webster et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Time to set the agenda for schistosomiasis elimination

(2012) David Rollinson et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Efficacy and safety of two closely spaced doses of praziquantel against Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni and re-infection patterns in school-aged children in Niger

(2012) Amadou Garba et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Cure rate is not a valid indicator for assessing drug efficacy and impact of preventive chemotherapy interventions against schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis

(2011) Antonio Montresor   TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Schistosomiasis elimination: lessons from the past guide the future

(2010) Darren J Gray et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Parasites and poverty: The case of schistosomiasis

(2009) Charles H. King   ACTA TROPICA