Nature Communications (Feb 2018)
Agrochemicals increase risk of human schistosomiasis by supporting higher densities of intermediate hosts
- Neal T. Halstead,
- Christopher M. Hoover,
- Arathi Arakala,
- David J. Civitello,
- Giulio A. De Leo,
- Manoj Gambhir,
- Steve A. Johnson,
- Nicolas Jouanard,
- Kristin A. Loerns,
- Taegan A. McMahon,
- Raphael A. Ndione,
- Karena Nguyen,
- Thomas R. Raffel,
- Justin V. Remais,
- Gilles Riveau,
- Susanne H. Sokolow,
- Jason R. Rohr
Affiliations
- Neal T. Halstead
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida
- Christopher M. Hoover
- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
- Arathi Arakala
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
- David J. Civitello
- Department of Biology, Emory University
- Giulio A. De Leo
- Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
- Manoj Gambhir
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
- Steve A. Johnson
- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
- Nicolas Jouanard
- Centre de Recherche Biomédicale Espoir pour la Santé
- Kristin A. Loerns
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida
- Taegan A. McMahon
- Department of Biology, University of Tampa
- Raphael A. Ndione
- Centre de Recherche Biomédicale Espoir pour la Santé
- Karena Nguyen
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida
- Thomas R. Raffel
- Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University
- Justin V. Remais
- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
- Gilles Riveau
- Centre de Recherche Biomédicale Espoir pour la Santé
- Susanne H. Sokolow
- Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
- Jason R. Rohr
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03189-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Agrochemicals can affect the life cycle of human parasites in unexpected ways. Here, Halstead et al. show in mesocosm experiments that agrochemicals increase the density of snails hosting schistosome parasites, and modeling analysis suggests this could lead to increased risk of human schistosomiasis.
