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Citizens can help to map putative transmission sites for snail-borne diseases.

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العنوان: Citizens can help to map putative transmission sites for snail-borne diseases.
المؤلفون: Tumusiime J; Department of Biology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.; Institute of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany., Valderrama Bhraunxs N; Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium., Kagoro-Rugunda G; Department of Biology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda., Namirembe D; Department of Biology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda., Albrecht C; Department of Biology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.; Institute of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany., Twongyirwe R; Department of Environment and Livelihoods Support Systems, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda., Tolo CU; Department of Biology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda., Jacobs L; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.; Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Huyse T; Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
المصدر: PLoS neglected tropical diseases [PLoS Negl Trop Dis] 2024 Apr 04; Vol. 18 (4), pp. e0012062. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 04 (Print Publication: 2024).
نوع المنشور: Journal Article
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Publisher: Public Library of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101291488 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1935-2735 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19352727 NLM ISO Abbreviation: PLoS Negl Trop Dis Subsets: MEDLINE
أسماء مطبوعة: Original Publication: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science
مواضيع طبية MeSH: Schistosomiasis*/epidemiology , Biomphalaria*, Animals ; Humans ; Bulinus ; Seasons ; Disease Vectors
مستخلص: Introduction: Schistosomiasis and fasciolosis are snail-borne diseases of great medical and veterinary health importance. The World Health Organization recommends complementing drug treatment with snail control and community involvement for disease elimination, but there is a general lack of snail experts and hence snail distribution data. Therefore, we adopted a citizen science approach and involved citizens in the monitoring of medically and veterinary important snail taxa.
Materials and Methods: Snail data was collected weekly by 25 trained citizen scientists (CSs) at 76 sites around southern Lake Albert (Uganda) for 20 months. At each site, snails were searched for 30 minutes, sorted, target snail hosts identified to genus level, counted and data submitted through a smartphone application. The quality of this data was assessed by comparing it to monthly data collected by an 'expert' malacologist using the same sampling protocol. Generalised binomial logistic and linear mixed-effects models were used to analyse the variables for agreement between the CSs and expert.
Findings: The binary agreement in presence/absence of Biomphalaria, Bulinus and Radix snails reported by the expert and CSs ranged between 70% and 86% (900 reports) with an average of 17% false negatives (sites wrongly defined as snail-free). The agreement for Biomphalaria and Radix increased with snail abundance, and false negatives decreased when the number of snails collected by citizens was aggregated per month. Site type significantly predicted binary agreement, which was lowest at lake sites (55%) and highest at spring sites (99%) with variations across genera. Similar temporal trends in snail abundance were recorded despite the expert reporting higher abundance. However, the relative abundance was consistent across site types. The match between the sites with highest Biomphalaria spp. abundance identified by CSs and expert was consistently high (~84.1%) and increased over time.
Conclusions and Recommendations: Our results demonstrate the potential of citizen science to map putative schistosomiasis transmission sites. We therefore argue that this inclusive, powerful and cost-effective approach can be more sustainable than top-down monitoring and intervention campaigns.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Tumusiime et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
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تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20240404 Date Completed: 20240418 Latest Revision: 20240425
رمز التحديث: 20240425
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: PMC11020946
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012062
PMID: 38574112
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
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تدمد:1935-2735
DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0012062