Projecting the long-term impact of school- or community-based mass-treatment interventions for control of Schistosoma infection.

• Main Authors: Xiaoxia Wang (Author), David Gurarie (Author), Peter L Mungai (Author), Eric M Muchiri (Author), Uriel Kitron (Author), Charles H King (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Schistosomiasis remains a significant health burden in many areas of the world. Morbidity control, focused on limiting infection intensity through periodic delivery of anti-schistosomal medicines, is the thrust of current World Health Organization guidelines (2006) for reduction of Schistosoma-relat...