From Perpetual Wetness to Soil Chemistry: Enumerating Environmental and Physicochemical Factors Favoring Snail Presence in the Municipality of Gonzaga, Cagayan, Philippines.

Snail control to complement mass drug administration is being promoted by the World Health Organization for schistosomiasis control. , the snail intermediate host of in the Philippines, has a very focal distribution; thus, scrutinizing baseline data and parameters affecting this distribution is very crucial. In this study in Gonzaga, Cagayan, Philippines, snail habitats were surveyed, and the various factors affecting the existence of the snails were determined.