Factors Controlling the Distribution of Intermediate Host Snails of Schistosoma in Crater Lakes in Uganda: A Machine Learning Approach

Factors Controlling the Distribution of Intermediate Host Snails of Schistosoma in Crater Lakes in Uganda: A Machine Learning Approach

Schistosomiasis affects over 700 million people globally. 90% of the infected live in sub-Saharan Africa, where the trematode species Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium transmitted by intermediate hosts (IH) of the gastropod genera Biomphalaria and Bulinus are the major cause of the human diseas...

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Main Authors: Zadoki Tabo, Thomas A. Neubauer, Immaculate Tumwebaze, Björn Stelbrink, Lutz Breuer, Cyril Hammoud, Christian Albrecht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
Subjects:
schistosomisis
biotic and abiotic predictors
mollusks
random forest
Africa
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.871735/full

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