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SUMMARY:Do schistosomes maximize fitness over changing environments? - Pro
 fessor Joanne Webster\, School of Public Health\, Imperial College
DTSTART:20120523T153000Z
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CONTACT:Suzy Blows
DESCRIPTION:Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease of profound medical and
  veterinary importance across much of the developing world.  Environmental
  change\, whether through natural phenomena or human intervention such as 
 mass chemotherapeutic control programmes\, impacts the ecological balance 
 and context within which humans and their livestock live\, how their share
 d parasites and pathogens evolve and transmit\, and ultimately on human an
 d animal health and disease control.  Focusing on field studies from acros
 s Africa and Asia\, I present recent work aimed to further our knowledge o
 n the basic biology and transmission dynamics of this key neglected tropic
 al disease.  Such information should provide decision-makers and health se
 rvices at both national and community levels with improved tools to target
  interventions. More generally this research aims to enhance our understan
 ding of the evolutionary dynamics of a wide spectrum of multi-host parasit
 ic diseases of humans and animals in our rapidly changing world.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Department of Veterinary Medicine
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