The association between child Schistosoma spp. infections and morbidity in an irrigated rice region in Mali: a localized study.

CONCLUSION: Our research contributes an important micro-geographical assessment of the heavy burden of schistosomiasis and associated morbidity in children who live in the rice irrigation regions. Our literature review found that there has been very limited research conducted on the impact of the treatment to control morbidity in the ON. Therefore, there is a need to do a comparable, but more extensive, study to identify any changes in morbidity and to indicate current requirements for the control programme. Our results from 2005 called for routine integration of iron supplementation, food fortification and diet diversification into the deworming program.
PMID: 31356787 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acta Tropica - July 25, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Mutombo N, Landouré A, Young Man W, Fenwick A, Dembélé R, Sacko M, Keita AD, Traoré MS, Webster JP, McLaws ML Tags: Acta Trop Source Type: research