Publications_by_study

Publications

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By Study Area:

| Water contact | Transmission modeling |

| Field epidemiology | GIS/RS | Genetic analysis |

| Hydrology | Parasite burden | Interventions |

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Background

Liang, S., C. Yang, B. Zhong and D. Qiu (2006). "Re-emerging schistosomiasis in hilly and mountainous areas of Sichuan, China." Bull World Health Organ 84(2): 139-44.

Spear, R., E. Seto, J. Remais, E. Carlton, G. Davis, D. Qiu, X. Zhou and S. Liang (2006). "Comment on: Fighting Waterborne Infectious Diseases." Science 314(5802): 1081-1083.

Spear, R. C., E. Seto, J. Remais, E. J. Carlton, G. Davis, D. Qiu, X. Zhou and S. Liang (2006). "Fighting Waterborne Infectious Diseases." Science 314(5802): 1081c-1083.

Snail Ecology

Remais, J., A. Hubbard, Z. Wu and R. Spear (2007). "Weather-driven dynamics of an intermediate host: mechanistic and statistical population modelling of Oncomelania hupensis." Journal of Applied Ecology 44(4): 781-791.

Wu, Z., L. G. Zhao, Y. Mao, H. Yin, H. Wong, T. Wu and R. C. Spear (2004). "Report on Oncomelia snail surveys in ditches in the basin around Qionghai Lake, Xichang, Sichuan." Chinese J. Schistosomiasis Control 5: 359-62, in Chinese.

Xu, B., P. Gong, G. Biging, S. Liang, E. Seto and R. Spear (2004). "Snail density prediction for schistosomiasis control using ikonos and ASTER images." Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 70(11): 1285-1294.

Wu, W. P., G. Davis, E. Seto, J. Zhang, J. Hua, J. G. Guo, Z. Feng, H. G. Chen, P. Gong and R. C. Spear (2002). "Application of remote sensing for surveillance of snail habitats in Poyang Lake, China." Chinese J. Parasitology and Parasitic Disease 20: 205-8, in Chinese.

Seto, E., W. Wu, D. Qiu, X. Gu, R. Spear and G. Davis (2002). "Impact of soil chemistry on the distribution of Oncomelania hupensis (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae in China." Malacologia 44(2): 259-272.

Stothard, J. R., A. F. Mgeni, S. Khamis, E. Seto, M. Ramsan, S. J. Hubbard, T. K. Kristensen and D. Rollinson (2002). "New insights into the transmission biology of urinary schistosomiasis in Zanzibar." Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 96(5): 470-5.

Seto, E., S. Liang, D. Qiu, X. Gu and R. C. Spear (2001). "A protocol for geographically randomized snail surveys in schistosomiasis fieldwork using the global positioning system." Am J Trop Med Hyg 64(1-2): 98-9.

Davis, G. M., T. Wilke, Y. Zhang, X.-J. Xu, C.-P. Qiu, C. Spolsky, D.-C. Qiu, Y. Li, M.-Y. Xia and Z. Feng (1999). "Snail-Schistosoma, Paragonimus interactions in China: Population ecology, genetic diversity, coevolution and emerging diseases." Malacologia 41(2): 355-377.

Cercarial risk

Lowe, D., J. Xi, X. Meng, Z. Wu, D. Qiu and R. Spear (2005). "Transport of Schistosoma japonicum cercariae and the feasibility of niclosamide for cercariae control." Parasitol Int 54(1): 83-9.

Spear, R. C., B. Zhong, Y. Mao, A. Hubbard, M. Birkner, J. Remais and D. Qiu (2004). "Spatial and temporal variability in schistosome cercarial density detected by mouse bioassays in village irrigation ditches in Sichuan, China." Am J Trop Med Hyg 71(5): 554-7.

Cercariometry

Driscoll, A. J.; Kyle, J.L.; Remais, J. (2005), Development of a novel PCR assay capable of detecting a single Schistosoma japonicum cercaria recovered from Oncomelania hupensis Parasitology 131: 497-500

Water contact

Seto, E.Y.W., Knapp, F., Zhong, B., Yang, C, (2007) The use of a vest
equipped with a global positioning system to assess water-contact patterns associated with Schistosomiasis, Geospatial Health, (2): 233-241.

Seto, E., Lee, EY, Liang, S, Zhong, B (2006). "Individual and Village-level Study of Water Contact Exposure Patterns and Schistosoma japonicum Reinfection in Mountainous Rural China." Tropical Medicine and International Health in review.

Transmission modeling

Remais, J., S. Liang and R. Spear (2007). "Coupling hydrologic and infectious disease models to explain regional differences in schistosomiasis transmission in southwestern China." Environmental Science & Technology: accepted.

Liang, S., Seto, E., Remais, J., Zhong, B., Yang, C., Hubbard, A., Davis, G., Gu, X., Qiu, D., Spear, R.C. (2007). "Environmental effects on transmission and control of parasitic diseases exemplified by schistosomiasis in Western China." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104(17): 7110-7115.

Xu, B., P. Gong, E. Seto, S. Liang, C. Yang, S. Wen, D. Qiu, X. Gu and R. C. Spear (2006). "A spatial-temporal model for assessing the effects of inter-village connectivity in schistosomiasis transmission." Annals Am. Assoc. Geographers 96(1): 31-46.

Liang, S., R. C. Spear, E. Seto, A. Hubbard and D. Qiu (2005). "A multi-group model of Schistosoma japonicum transmission dynamics and control: model calibration and control prediction." Trop Med Int Health 10(3): 263-78.

Spear, R. C., J. V. Remais, D. Simiu, E. Seto, S. Liang and P. Gong (2005). "A Systems Perspective on the Identification of Environmental Factors Influencing the Re-emergence of Schistosomiasis Transmission in Sichuan Province, China." Am. J. Public Health submitted.

Spear, R. C., E. Seto, S. Liang, M. Birkner, A. Hubbard, D. Qiu, C. Yang, B. Zhong, F. Xu, X. Gu and G. Davis (2004). "Factors influencing the transmission of Schistosoma japonicum in the mountains of Sichuan Province." Am J Trop Med Hyg 70(1): 48-56.

Liang, S. (2003). A spatio-temporal modeling of schistosomiasis transmission dynamics and control in Sichuan, China. Environmental Health Sciences. Berkeley, University of California at Berkeley: 197.

Hubbard, A., S. Liang, D. Maszle, D. Qiu, X. Gu and R. C. Spear (2002). "Estimating the distribution of worm burden and egg excretion of Schistosoma japonicum by risk group in Sichuan Province, China." Parasitology 125(Pt 3): 221-31.

Seto, E., B. Xu, S. Liang, P. Gong, W. P. Wu, G. Davis, D. C. Qiu, X. G. Gu and R. Spear (2002). "The use of remote sensing for predictive modeling of schistosomiasis in China." Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 68(2): 167-174.

Liang, S., D. Maszle and R. C. Spear (2002). "A quantitative framework for a multi-group model of Schistosomiasis japonicum transmission dynamics and control in Sichuan, China." Acta Trop 82(2): 263-77.

Spear, R. C., A. Hubbard, S. Liang and E. Seto (2002). "Disease transmission models for public health decision making: Toward an approach for designing intervention strategies for Schistosomiasis japonica." Environmental Health Perspectives 110(9): 907-915.

Liang, S. (1999). Quantifying the aggregation of schistosomiasis infection and a simulation, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.

Hydrology

Maszle, D. R., P. G. Whitehead, R. C. Johnson and R. C. Spear (1998). "Hydrological studies of schistosomiasis transport in Sichuan Province, China." Science of the Total Environment 216(3): 193-203.

Genetic analysis

GIS/RS

Seto, E.Y.W., Moore, C. G., Hoskins, R., (2007) Geographic Information
Systems and Remote Sensing for Infectious Disease Surveillance, In Nkuchia M'ikanatha and Ruth Lynfield (Eds.), Infectious Disease Surveillance, Blackwell, London, United Kingdom.

Davis, G., Wu, W., Liu, H., Williams, A., Lu, S., Chen, H. and Seto, E.
(2003) Applying GIS and RS to the epidemiology of schistsomiasis in Poyang Lake, China. Geographic Information Sciences, 8, 67-77.

Spear, R., P. Gong, E. Seto, Y. Zhou, B. Xu, D. Maszle, S. Liang, G. Davis and X. Gu (1999). "Remote sensing and GIS for schistosomiasis control in mountainous areas in Sichuan, China." Geographic Information Systems(4): 14-22.

Zhou, Y., D. Maszle, R. C. Spear, P. Gong, X. Gu, D. Qiu, S. Liang and S. Wen (1999). "GIS and spatial analysis in schistosomiasis transmission and control in mountainous areas." Chinese J. Schistosomiasis Control 11: 263-266, in Chinese.

Zhou, Y., D. Maszle, P. Gong, R. C. Spear and X. Gu (1996). "GIS based spatial network models of schistosomiasis infection." Geographic Information Sciences 2(1-2): 51-57.

Field epidemiology

Qiu, D. C., A. E. Hubbard, B. Zhong, Y. Zhang and R. C. Spear (2005). "A matched, case-control study of the association between Schistosoma japonicum and liver and colon cancers, in rural China." Ann Trop Med Parasitol 99(1): 47-52.

Seto, E., B. Zhong, J. Kouch, H. Hubbard and R. C. Spear (2005). "Genetic and household risk factors for Schistosoma japonicum infection in the presence of large environmental variability in the mountainous transmission areas of China." Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 73(6): 1145-1150.

Seto, E., Xu, B., Wu, W., Davis, G., Qiu, D., Gu, X., Gong, P., & Spear, R.
(2002). The Use of GIS and Remote Sensing in Schistosomiasis Control in China. In O. Kahn and R. Skinner (Eds.), Geographic Information Systems and Health Applications. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc.

Stothard, J. R., A. F. Mgeni, S. Khamis, E. Seto, M. Ramsan and D. Rollinson (2002). "Urinary schistosomiasis in schoolchildren on Zanzibar Island (Unguja), Tanzania: a parasitological survey supplemented with questionnaires." Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 96(5): 507-14.

Xu, F. S., K. Y. Sha, B. Z. Liu, L. G. Zhao, Y. F. Xiao, H. Z. Ying, Z. S. Wu, D. C. Qiu, S. Liang and R. C. Spear (2002). "Investigation on schistosomiasis in residents living around Qionghai Lake, Xichang City." Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control 14: 105-8, in Chinese.

Hubbard, A., S. Liang, D. Maszle, D. C. Qiu, X. G. Gu and R. C. Spear (2001). "Schistosomiasis japonica: Efffect of light infections on estimating parasite burden and aggregation in a rural population in Sichuan Province."

Liang, Y. S., J. R. Dai, A. Ning, D. B. Yu, X. J. Xu, Y. C. Zhu and G. C. Coles (2001). "Susceptibility of Schistosoma japonicum to praziquantel in China." Trop Med Int Health 6(9): 707-14.

Chen, L., B. Zhong, K. Y. Sha, L. G. Zhao, H. Z. Ying, C. H. Yang, S. Liang, R. C. Spear and X. Gu (2001). "Geographical and agricultural characteristics and prevalence of schistosomiasis around Qionghai Lake Area, Xichang City, Sichuan." Journal of Practical Parasitic Diseases 9: 145-8, in Chinese.

Parasite burden

Hubbard, A., S. Liang, D. Maszle, D. C. Qiu, X. G. Gu and R. C. Spear (2001). "Schistosomiasis japonica: Effect of light infections on estimating parasite burden and aggregation in a rural population in Sichuan Province."

Interventions

Remais, J., E. Seto and N. Chen (2008). "Quantifying energy and disease co-benefits of anaerobic biogas digestion: schistosome ova inactivation and energy substitution in rural China." Bulletin of the World Health Organization: submitted.

Schistosomiasis In China

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