Figure 3
From: Pesticide pollution in freshwater paves the way for schistosomiasis transmission
Pesticide pollution increases the incidence (probability of occurrence) of snails that act as hosts of schistosomiasis. Binomial GLM with complementary log-log link function; χ² = 7.60, res. df = 46, p = 0.006, McFadden’s pseudo-R² = 0.16. Means ± 95% confidence intervals are shown. Pesticide pollution was quantified as log10 of the maximum ratio of a pesticide concentration measured in a grab sample of water vs. the acute LC50of that pesticide for a standard reference organism (TUmax). TUmax of marginally polluted sites (n = 4) was set to a minimum of TU −5.
