image: Professor Andrew S. Brierley records field notes during the stocking of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) as part of a schistosomiasis biocontrol project on the shores of Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
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Article title: Stocking African catfish in Lake Victoria provides effective biocontrol of snail vectors of Schistosoma mansoni
Author countries: United Kingdom, Uganda, Tanzania, Australia, United States
Funding: This research was funded by a Royal Society grant (CHL\R1\180111 ; www.royalsociety.org) awarded to ASB, SK and RK, a NERC Belmont Forum grant (NE/T013591/1; www.ukri.org) awarded to ASB and GDL and a MRC Harmonised Impact Acceleration Grant (www.ukri.org) awarded to ASB, FA, SK, and RK. GADL and AJC were partially supported by the USA National Science Foundation (# ICER-2024383 through the Belmont Collaborative Forum on Climate, Environment and Health), and by USA-NSF DEB #2011179 under the program Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.