Reassessment of the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Sri Lanka to enable a more focused control programme: a cross-sectional national school survey with spatial modelling

• Hauptverfasser: Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera, MSc (Verfasst von), Sharmini Gunawardena, ProfMD (Verfasst von), Nipul Kithsiri Gunawardena, ProfPhD (Verfasst von), Devika Iddawela, ProfPhD (Verfasst von), Selvam Kannathasan, ProfPhD (Verfasst von), Arumugam Murugananthan, MPhil (Verfasst von), Channa Yahathugoda, ProfPhD (Verfasst von), Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, ProfMD (Verfasst von), Peter John Diggle, ProfPhD (Verfasst von), Nilanthi de Silva, ProfMD (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: Elsevier, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary: Background: In Sri Lanka, deworming programmes for soil-transmitted helminth infections became an integral part of school health in the 1960s, whereas routine antenatal deworming with mebendazole started in the 1980s. A 2003 national soil-transmitted helminth survey done among schoolchildre...