Journal article

Publication year: 2014

Pages: 217-220

Journal: Trends in Parasitology

Volume number: 30

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 1471-4922

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2014.02.006

Publisher: Cell Press

Abstract: 
Multiple anthropogenic environmental stressors with reinforcing effects to the deterioration of ecosystem stability can obscure links between ecosystem change and the prevalence of infectious diseases. Incomplete understanding may lead to ineffective public health and disease control strategies, as appears to be the case with increased urogenital schistosomiasis in humans around Lake Malawi over recent decades. Sedimentation and eutrophication help explain historical changes in intermediate host range and parasite transmission. Hence, control strategies should account for abiotic changes.

Harvard Citation style: Bocxlaer, B., Albrecht, C. and Stauffer, J. (2014) Growing population and ecosystem change increase human schistosomiasis around Lake Malawi, Trends in Parasitology, 30(5), pp. 217-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2014.02.006

APA Citation style: Bocxlaer, B., Albrecht, C., & Stauffer, J. (2014). Growing population and ecosystem change increase human schistosomiasis around Lake Malawi. Trends in Parasitology. 30(5), 217-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2014.02.006