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

• Main Authors: María-Gloria Basáñez (Author), James S McCarthy (Author), Michael D French (Author), Guo-Jing Yang (Author), Martin Walker (Author), Manoj Gambhir (Author), Roger K Prichard (Author), Thomas S Churcher (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mathematical modelling of helminth infections has the potential to inform policy and guide research for the control and elimination of human helminthiases. However, this potential, unlike in other parasitic and infectious diseases, has yet to be realised. To place contemporary efforts in a historica...