Successful Control of Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in School Age Children in Burkina Faso and an Example of Community-Based Assessment via Lymphatic Filariasis Transmission Assessment Survey.

• Main Authors: François Drabo (Author), Hamado Ouedraogo (Author), Roland Bougma (Author), Clarisse Bougouma (Author), Issouf Bamba (Author), Dramane Zongo (Author), Mohamed Bagayan (Author), Laura Barrett (Author), Fanny Yago-Wienne (Author), Stephanie Palmer (Author), Brian Chu (Author), Emily Toubali (Author), Yaobi Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Burkina Faso is endemic with soil-transmitted helminth infections. Over a decade of preventive chemotherapy has been implemented through annual lymphatic filariasis (LF) mass drug administration (MDA) for population aged five years and over, biennial treatment of school age children with...