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Schistosomiasis in Lake Malawi and the Potential Use of Indigenous Fish for Biological Control
Ecological studies on the intermediate host snails and the relevance to schistosomiasis control
A detailed knoledge of distribution patterns schistosome intermediate hsts and their populations dynamics and factors affecting these patterns will provide useful information about the possibilities and desirability of conducting snail control measures in various transmission situations. On the basis of various case studies the association between the occurence of human water contacts and the presence of schistosome intermediate hosts or infections in the intermediate hosts is illustrated. Other parameters affecting snail distribution patterns and density fluctuations are discussed. It is concluded that ecological studies on the intermediate host are extremely relevant, either to optimally apply existing control measures or to develop alternative measures of snail control, such as ecological or biological control
Numerical modeling of the transition from low to high confinement in magnetically confined plasma
<em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> in Lake Malawi<em/>:susceptibility and molecular diversity of the snail hosts <em>Bulinus globosus</em> and <em>B. nyassanus</em>
Temperature dynamics and velocity scaling laws for interchange driven, warm ion plasma filaments
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