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Title
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Comparative phylogenetic studies on Schistosoma japonicum and its snail intermediate host Oncomelania hupensis : origins, dispersal and coevolution
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Author
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Attwood, Stephen W., Ibaraki, Motomu, Saitoh, Yasuhide, Janies, Daniel
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Subjects--Topical
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Parasites, Coevolution, Public health
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Description
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Schistosoma japonicum causes major public health problems in China and the Philippines; this parasite, which is transmitted by freshwater snails of the species Oncomelania hupen- sis, causes the disease intestinal schistosomiasis in humans and cat...
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Detecting space-time clusters of dengue fever in Panama after adjusting for vector surveillance data
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Author
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Desjardins, Michael R., Whiteman, Ari, Eskildsen, Gilberto
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Virus diseases--Prevention, Tropical medicine
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Description
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Long term surveillance of vectors and arboviruses is an integral aspect of disease prevention and control systems in countries affected by increasing risk. Yet, little effort has been made to adjust space-time risk estimation by integrating diseas...
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Zika virus : medical countermeasure development challenges
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Damodaran, Lambodhar, Schneider, Adriano
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Zika virus
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Description
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Introduction Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions is a rapidly developing neu...