Risk clusters of Schistosoma mansoni infection in an endemic state of Brazil: space-time modelling and association with socio-economic and environmental factors.
Mariana do Rosário SouzaDamyres Menezes S de JesusAlexrangel H Cruz SantosShirley Verônica Melo Almeida LimaAllan Dantas Dos SantosDébora Dos Santos TavaresKarina Conceição G M de AraújoMárcio Bezerra SantosPublished in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2021)
Despite a reduction in the number of cases, intestinal schistosomiasis still represents a serious public health concern in Alagoas. It urgently requires planning and improvements in diagnosis, prevention programs and the state's socio-economic indicators.
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