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Snail-Related Contributions from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation Program Including Xenomonitoring, Focal Mollusciciding, Biological Control, and Modeling
Allan, Fiona, Ame, Shaali M, Tian-Bi, Yves-Nathan T, Hofkin, Bruce V, Webster, BL, Diakité, Nana R, N’Goran, Eliezer K, Kabole, Fatma, Khamis, Iddi S, Gouvras, Anouk N, Emery, AM, Pennance, T, Rabone, M, Kinung’hi, Safari, Hamidou, Amina Amadou, Mkoji, Gerald M, McLaughlin, John P, Kuris, Armand M, Loker, Eric S, Knopp, Stefanie, Rollinson, D
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2020-05-12
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2019-11-06
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The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) was created in 2008 to answer questions of importance to program managers working to reduce the burden of schistosomiasis in Africa. In the past, intermediate host snail monitoring and control was an important part of integrated schistosomiasis control. However, in Africa, efforts to control snails have declined dramatically over the last 30 years. A resurgence of interest in the control of snails has been prompted by the realization, backed by a World Health Assembly resolution (WHA65.21), that mass drug administration alone may be insufficient to achieve schistosomiasis elimination. SCORE has supported work on snail identification and mapping and investigated how xenomonitoring techniques can aid in the identification of infected snails and thereby identify potential transmission areas. Focal mollusciciding with niclosamide was undertaken in Zanzibar and Côte d'Ivoire as a part of elimination studies. Two studies involving biological control of snails were conducted: one explored the association of freshwater riverine prawns and snail hosts in Côte d'Ivoire and the other assessed the current distribution of <i>Procambarus clarkii</i>, the invasive Louisiana red swamp crayfish, in Kenya and its association with snail hosts and schistosomiasis transmission. SCORE also supported modeling studies on the importance of snail control in achieving elimination and a meta-analysis of the impact of molluscicide-based snail control programs on human schistosomiasis prevalence and incidence. SCORE's snail control studies contributed to increased investment in building capacity, and specimens collected during SCORE research deposited in the Schistosomiasis Collections at the Natural History Museum (SCAN) will provide a valuable resource for the years to come.
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Allan F, Ame SM, Tian-Bi YT, et al. Snail-Related Contributions from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation Program Including Xenomonitoring, Focal Mollusciciding, Biological Control, and Modeling. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2020;103(1_Suppl):66-79. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.19-0831
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0002-9637
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1476-1645