Physiology and pharmacology of copper.
Physiology and pharmacology of copper.
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铜的生理学和药理学。
DOI:
10.1016/0163-7258(80)90019-4
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发表时间:
1980
影响因子:
13.5
通讯作者:
R. Österberg
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文献类型:
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作者:
R. Österberg
Schistosomiasis is one of the most important public health problems of tropical and subtropical regions and it has been estimated that there may be some 2-300 million cases (Cheng, 1974) and even more people exposed to the risk of infection. The human schistosomes, or blood flukes, are digenetic trematodes and the three species of schistosomes commonly infecting man have similar life-cycles. They have an alternation of generations with the sexual generation of adult schistosomes in the definitive vertebrate host and an asexual stage in a snail intermediate host. The snail intermediate hosts of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium are aquatic moluscs while those of S. japonicum are amphibious.The different methods of control of schistosomiasis include mass therapy of the human definitive host, environmental sanitation, control of contact with water and control of the molluscan intermediate host. Each has advantages and disadvantages and may be more or less effective according to the conditions where they are applied. Snail control by molluscicides is a rapid and effective means of reducing transmission and its efficiency is likely to be increased if combined with other methods of control. Copper compounds have been continuously used as molluscicides since it was reported that copper sulphate was effective in killing the snail intermediate host of the liver fluke,