The public health benefit and burden of mass drug administration programs in Vietnamese schoolchildren: Impact of mebendazole.

• Egile Nagusiak: Sam Debaveye (Egilea), Claudia Virginia Gonzalez Torres (Egilea), Delphine De Smedt (Egilea), Bert Heirman (Egilea), Shane Kavanagh (Egilea), Jo Dewulf (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
• Sarrera elektronikoa: Connect to this object online.

BACKGROUND:Mass anthelmintic drug administration is recommended in developing countries to address infection by soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH). We quantified the public health benefit of treatment with mebendazole in eight million Vietnamese children aged 5-14 years from 2006 to 2011. This was...