Swimmer's itch control: Timely waterfowl brood relocation significantly reduces an avian schistosome population and human cases on recreational lakes.

Swimmer's itch (SI) is a dermatitis in humans caused by cercariae of avian and mammalian schistosomes which emerge from infected snails on a daily basis. Mitigation methods for SI have long been sought with little success. Copper sulfate application to the water to kill the snail hosts is the h...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Curtis L Blankespoor, Harvey D Blankespoor, Randall J DeJong
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:English
منشور في: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
سلاسل:PLoS ONE
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0288948&type=printable