Lv, Shan
Xu, Jing
Li, Yin-Long
Bao, Zi-Ping
Zhang, Li-Juan
Yang, Kun
Lin, Dan-Dan
Liu, Jian-Bing
Wang, Tian-Ping
Ren, Guang-Hui
Zhong, Bo
Dong, Yi
Cai, Li
Wen, Li-Yong
Jiang, Zhi-Hua
Deng, Zhuo-Hui
Xie, Han-Guo
Li, Shi-Zhu
Bergquist, Robert
Utzinger, Jürg
Zhou, Xiao-Nong https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1417-8427
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2021YFC2300800, 2021YFC2300803)
Article History
Received: 29 February 2024
Accepted: 4 February 2025
First Online: 21 February 2025
Declarations
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: The survey was approved by the National Health Commission (Division of Endemic and Parasitic Diseases [2016] 30) and the study did not involve endangered or protected species. The collectors wore gloves and rubber boots in the field survey in order to avoid infection by S. japonicum. All collectors were listed as the co-authors or in the acknowledgements and fully aware of the research.
: Not applicable.
: Xiao-Nong Zhou is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty. Jürg Utzinger is the deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty. They are not involved in the peer-review or handling of the manuscript. The other authors have no other competing interests to disclose.