Prawn aquaculture as a method for schistosomiasis control and poverty alleviation: a win-win approach to address a critical infectious disease of poverty
Year: 2018
Type: preprint
Abstract: Recent evidence suggests crustacean snail predators may aid schistosomiasis control programs by targeting the environmental component of the parasite’s life cycle through predation of the snail species that serve as intermediate hosts of the parasite. We evaluate costs, benefits, and potential synergies between schistosomiasis control and aquaculture of giant prawns using an integrated bio-economic-epidemiologic model. We identified combinations of stocking density and aquaculture cycle length that maximize profit and offer disease control benefits for sustainable schistosomiasis control. We consider two prawn species in sub-Saharan Africa: the endemic, non-domesticated Macrobrachium vollenhovenii , and the non-native, domesticated Macrobrachium rosenbergii . We find that, at profit-optimal densities, both M. rosenbergii and M. vollenhovenii can complement conventional control approaches (mass drug treatment of people) and lead to sustainable schistosomiasis control. We conclude that integrated aquaculture strategies can be a win-win strategy in terms of health and sustainable development in schistosomiasis endemic regions of the world.
DOI: 10.1101/465195
Authors: Christopher M. Hoover, Susanne H. Sokolow, Jonas Kemp, James N. Sanchirico, Andrea J. Lund, Isabel Jones, Tyler Higginson, Gilles Riveau, Amit Savaya-Alkalay, Shawn Coyle, Chelsea L. Wood, Fiorenza Micheli, Renato Casagrandi, Lorenzo Mari, Marino Gatto, Andrea Rinaldo, Javier Perez-Saez, Jason R. Rohr, Amir Sagi, Justin V. Remais, Giulio A. De Leo
Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, University of California, Davis, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Espoir pour la Sante, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Kentucky State University, University of Washington, Politecnico di Milano, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Notre Dame, University of South Florida
Language: English
Subfield: Parasitology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: National Science Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, University of Michigan, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fogarty International Center
Awards: G1718351451, G2171248195, G2215747378, Effects of agricultural expansion and intensification on infections, Analytical methods for estimating the joint climatological-social drivers of water quality and supply in contrasting tropical zones: Ecuador and China, Analytical methods for estimating the joint climatological-social drivers of water quality and supply in contrasting tropical zones: Ecuador and China, G333757185, G4614536575, CNH: The Coupled Human Health and Environmental Dynamics of Schistosomiasis, Spatio-temporal data integration methods for infectious disease surveillance, Optimal control of intervention strategies for waterborne disease epidemics, G7992220932, G8648232956, G8928835126, G993971353
OpenAlex ID: W2899887097