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An outbreak of intestinal schistosomiasis, alongside increasing urogenital schistosomiasis prevalence, in primary school children on the shoreline of Lake Malawi, Mangochi District, Malawi

2020-07-31

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background:</bold> Intestinal schistosomiasis was not considered endemic in Lake Malawi until November 2017 when populations of <italic>Biomphalaria pfeifferi</italic> were first reported; in May 2018, emergence of intestinal schistosomiasis was confirmed. This emergence was in spite of ongoing control of urogenital schistosomiasis by preventive chemotherapy. Our current study sou...

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-26662/v3
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