Development of a dynamical model to enhance understanding of epidemiology of schistosomiasis in school-aged-children.

ABSTRACT: School-aged-children are most vulnerable to schistosomiasis as exemplified by age-prevalence profiles although current understanding of these patterns needs improvement. Using epidemiological data from the southern shoreline of Lake Malawi, we investigated the dynamics of Schistosoma transmission and the main determinants of Schistosoma infection risk using a transmission dynamic model, considering urogenital and intestinal schistosomiasis respectively. Specifically, we assessed whether the proximity of primary schools to the immediate shoreline was a major geospatial and epidemiological determinant. Cross-sectional parasitology and malacological data previously collected and analysed was used, including age-infection profiles and interpolated predicted snail distributions for the southern

SUBMITTER: Reed AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12749467 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature