A research agenda for helminth diseases of humans: intervention for control and elimination.

• Main Authors: Roger K Prichard (Author), María-Gloria Basáñez (Author), Boakye A Boatin (Author), James S McCarthy (Author), Héctor H García (Author), Guo-Jing Yang (Author), Banchob Sripa (Author), Sara Lustigman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Recognising the burden helminth infections impose on human populations, and particularly the poor, major intervention programmes have been launched to control onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, soil-transmitted helminthiases, schistosomiasis, and cysticercosis. The Disease Reference Group on Helm...