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  • The study aimed to assess how effective mass chemotherapy is in controlling soil-borne nematodes and to identify factors that influence its success.
  • Conducted over three years in six villages divided into three treatment groups, the research compared the rates of infection and re-infection among them, revealing significant decreases in nematode populations.
  • Findings showed that while chemotherapy was effective, poor management practices like using fresh human waste in agriculture led to increased re-infection rates, highlighting the need for better education and practices regarding manure use.

Article Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the effects and influencing factors of mass chemotherapy in the late stage of soil-borne nematodiasis control so as to provide the evidence for the development of control programs.

Methods: Six villages were divided into three groups: the target chemotherapy, the selective chemotherapy and the control. By observation in three consecutive years, the indexes, mass infection rates, infection degrees and re-infections of soil-borne nematodes, were compared among the 3 groups. The influencing factors were also analyzed.

Results: The population infection rates of soil- borne nematodes decreased by 85.94%, 43.10% and 20.87%, respectively, in the three groups after chemotherapy compared with those before the intervention. A higher hookworm infection rate appeared and the chemotherapy effect was impacted in the target chemotherapy group, as some key population applied fresh human waste in vegetable plots. The re-infection rate was 16.65 times of the new infection rate.

Conclusions: Chemotherapy is still useful in the late stage of soil-borne nematode control. It is more important to enhance management of using manure and health education on focus population.

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