@article{c5a50409ce984d25957ac23588144866,
title = "Growing population and ecosystem change increase human schistosomiasis around Lake Malaŵi",
abstract = "Multiple anthropogenic environmental stressors with reinforcing effects to the deterioration of ecosystem stability can obscure links between ecosystem change and the prevalence of infectious diseases. Incomplete understanding may lead to ineffective public health and disease control strategies, as appears to be the case with increased urogenital schistosomiasis in humans around Lake Malaŵi over recent decades. Sedimentation and eutrophication help explain historical changes in intermediate host range and parasite transmission. Hence, control strategies should account for abiotic changes.",
author = "{Van Bocxlaer}, Bert and Christian Albrecht and Stauffer, {Jay R.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Professor Henry Madsen and an anonymous reviewer for constructive discussion. Funding was received from the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO-Vlaanderen), the Leopold III Fund, the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF), a Peter Buck Fellowship of the Smithsonian Institution to B.V.B., grants AL 1076/6-2, 7-1, 8-1 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to C.A., and the joint program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in ecology of infectious diseases (DEB-0224958) to J.R.S. The study was designed and the data was collected by B.V.B.; all authors were involved in the writing of the paper.",
year = "2014",
month = may,
doi = "10.1016/j.pt.2014.02.006",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "30",
pages = "217--220",
journal = "Trends in Parasitology",
issn = "1471-4922",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "5",
}
