Soil-transmitted helminth reinfection after drug treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Principais autores: Tie-Wu Jia (Autor), Sara Melville (Autor), Jürg Utzinger (Autor), Charles H King (Autor), Xiao-Nong Zhou (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections (i.e., Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm, and Trichuris trichiura) affect more than a billion people. Preventive chemotherapy (i.e., repeated administration of anthelmintic drugs to at-risk populations), is the mainstay of control. This strategy, however, does...