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Impact of health education on soil-transmitted helminth infections in schoolchildren of the Peruvian Amazon: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.

To control soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections, the World Health Organization recommends school-based deworming programs with a health hygiene education component. The effect of such health hygiene interventions, however, has not been adequately studied. The objective of the present study was...

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Main Authors:	Theresa W Gyorkos (Author), Mathieu Maheu-Giroux (Author), Brittany Blouin (Author), Martin Casapia (Author)
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Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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