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

• Main Authors: Boakye A Boatin (Author), María-Gloria Basáñez (Author), Roger K Prichard (Author), Kwablah Awadzi (Author), Rashida M Barakat (Author), Héctor H García (Author), Andrea Gazzinelli (Author), Warwick N Grant (Author), James S McCarthy (Author), Eliézer K N'Goran (Author), Mike Y Osei-Atweneboana (Author), Banchob Sripa (Author), Guo-Jing Yang (Author), Sara Lustigman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Human helminthiases are of considerable public health importance in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The acknowledgement of the disease burden due to helminth infections, the availability of donated or affordable drugs that are mostly safe and moderately efficacious, and the implementati...