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The roles of water, sanitation and hygiene in reducing schistosomiasis: a review

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, March 2015
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Title
The roles of water, sanitation and hygiene in reducing schistosomiasis: a review
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13071-015-0766-9
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Authors

Jack ET Grimes, David Croll, Wendy E Harrison, Jürg Utzinger, Matthew C Freeman, Michael R Templeton

Abstract

Schistosomiasis is a disease caused by infection with blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma. Transmission of, and exposure to, the parasite result from faecal or urinary contamination of freshwater containing intermediate host snails, and dermal contact with the same water. The World Health Assembly resolution 65.21 from May 2012 urges member states to eliminate schistosomiasis through preventive chemotherapy (i.e. periodic large-scale administration of the antischistosomal drug praziquantel to school-aged children and other high-risk groups), provision of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and snail control. However, control measures focus almost exclusively on preventive chemotherapy, while only few studies made an attempt to determine the impact of upgraded access to safe water, adequate sanitation and good hygiene on schistosome transmission. We recently completed a systematic review and meta-analysis pertaining to WASH and schistosomiasis and found that people with safe water and adequate sanitation have significantly lower odds of a Schistosoma infection. Importantly though, the transmission of schistosomiasis is deeply entrenched in social-ecological systems, and hence is governed by setting-specific cultural and environmental factors that determine human behaviour and snail populations. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature, which explores the transmission routes of schistosomes, particularly focussing on how these might be disrupted with WASH-related technologies and human behaviour. Additionally, future research directions in this area are highlighted.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Burkina Faso 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 608 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 126 21%
Student > Bachelor 78 13%
Researcher 53 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 52 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 28 5%
Other 100 16%
Unknown 176 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 86 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 65 11%
Environmental Science 54 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 43 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 41 7%
Other 135 22%
Unknown 189 31%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 March 2023.
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