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

• Autori principali: Sam Debaveye (Autore), Claudia Virginia Gonzalez Torres (Autore), Delphine De Smedt (Autore), Bert Heirman (Autore), Shane Kavanagh (Autore), Jo Dewulf (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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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...