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Resistance evaluation and surveillance initiative for schistosomiasis treatment: study protocol for the RESIST
Stefanie Knopp1,2, Said M Ali3, Norbert van Dijk4
1Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Kreuzstrasse 2, Allschwil, 4123, Switzerland. s.knopp@swisstph.ch.
BMC Infectious Diseases
|January 8, 2026
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