Epidemiological investigation of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in freshwater lakes on plateaus in the eastern part of Yunnan Province and the value of using ageographic information system
Objective To investigate the prevalence of infection with Angiostrongylus cantonensis in intermediate hosts,final hosts,and the human population in the Yi Long and Qi Lu lake basins and to examine the value of using ageographic information system(GIS)to epidemiologically investigate the prevalence of A.cantonensis. Methods A GIS was used to predict potential areas with A.cantonensis and its main intermediate host Pomacea canaliculata in the Yi Long and Qi Lu lake basins.Study sites were randomly selected.Sn...
【基金】
国家自然科学基金项目(No.81160363)
【更新日期】
2015-06-09
【分类号】
R383.19
【正文快照】
***fish,or shrimp.Of the residents,69.35%%occasionally are slightly cooked snails while only 2.26%often ate slightlycooked Margarya melanioides snails.Of the 308blood samples that were collected,31(10.10%)were sero-positive forIgG antibodies.The sero-posi