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Original Articles

The impact of the local water-development programme on the abundance of the intermediate hosts of schistosomiasis in three villages of the Senegal River delta

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Pages 135-145 | Received 23 Oct 1998, Accepted 12 Nov 1998, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

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