The public health significance and control of schistosomiasis in China--then and now.

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Published in Acta Trop on August 25, 2005

Authors

Xiao-Nong Zhou1, Li-Ying Wang, Ming-Gang Chen, Xiao-Hua Wu, Qing-Wu Jiang, Xian-Yi Chen, Jiang Zheng, Jürg Utzinger

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1: National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, China. ipdzhouxn@sh163.net

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