Schistosomiasis in Zambia:a systematic review of past and present experiences

作     者：Chester Kalinda Moses J.Chimbari Samson Mukaratirwa 

作者机构：School of Nursing and Public HealthCollege of Health SciencesHoward College CampusUniversity of KwaZulu-NatalDurbanSouth Africa College of Health SciencesHoward College CampusUniversity of KwaZulu-NatalDurbanSouth Africa School of Life SciencesCollege of AgricultureEngineering and ScienceWestville CampusUniversity of KwaZulu-NatalDurbanSouth Africa 

出 版 物：《Infectious Diseases of Poverty》 (贫困所致传染病（英文）)

年 卷 期：2018年第7卷第1期

页      面：394-403页

核心收录：

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

基　　金：The writing of this review was made possible through the post-doctoral fellowship from the University of KwaZulu-Natal College of Health Sciences that was awarded to Dr.Chester Kalinda 

主　　题：Biomphalaria Bulinus Epidemiology Ecology Literature review Schistosomiasis Schistosoma haematobium Schistosoma mansoni Zambia 

摘      要：Background:The speedy rate of change in the environmental and socio-economics factors may increase the incidence,prevalence and risk of schistosomiasis infections in ***,available information does not provide a comprehensive understanding of the biogeography and distribution of the disease,ecology and population dynamics of intermediate host *** current study used an information-theoretical approach to understand the biogeography and prevalence schistosomiasis and identified knowledge gaps that would be useful to improve policy towards surveillance and eradication of intermediate hosts snails in ***:To summarise the existing knowledge and build on past and present experiences of schistosomiasis epidemiology for effective disease control in Zambia,a systematic search of literature for the period 2000-2017 was done on PubMed,Google Scholar and *** the key words:‘Schistosomiasis’,‘Biomphalaria’,‘Bulinus’,‘Schistosoma mansoni’,‘Schistosoma haematobium’,and‘Zambia’,in combination with Booleans terms‘AND’and‘OR’,published reports/papers were obtained and reviewed independently for ***:Thirteen papers published in English that fulfilled the inclusion criteria were selected for the final *** papers suggest that the risk of infection has increased over the years and this has been attributed to environmental,socio-economic and demographic ***,schistosomiasis is endemic in many parts of the country with infection due to Schistosoma haematobium being more prevalent than that due to *** review also found that *** was linked to genital lesions,thus increasing risks of contracting other diseases such as HIV and cervical ***:For both *** and ***,environmental,socio-economic,and demographic factors were influential in the transmission and prevalence of the disease and highlight the need for detailed knowledge on ecological modelling and mapping the distri