Turning poop into profit: Cost-effectiveness and soil transmitted helminth infection risk associated with human excreta reuse in Vietnam.

• Main Authors: Ngan Tran-Thi (Author), Rachel J Lowe (Author), Janna M Schurer (Author), Tu Vu-Van (Author), Lauren E MacDonald (Author), Phuc Pham-Duc (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Human excreta is a low cost source of nutrients vital to plant growth, but also a source of pathogens transmissible to people and animals. We investigated the cost-savings and infection risk of soil transmitted helminths (STHs) in four scenarios where farmers used either inorganic fertilizer or fres...