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

• Päätekijät: Sam Debaveye (Tekijä), Claudia Virginia Gonzalez Torres (Tekijä), Delphine De Smedt (Tekijä), Bert Heirman (Tekijä), Shane Kavanagh (Tekijä), Jo Dewulf (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...