Sustained preventive chemotherapy for soil-transmitted helminthiases leads to reduction in prevalence and anthelminthic tablets required

• Main Authors: Denise Mupfasoni (Author), Mathieu Bangert (Author), Alexei Mikhailov (Author), Chiara Marocco (Author), Antonio Montresor (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background The goal of soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) control programmes is to eliminate STH-associated morbidity in the target population by reducing the prevalence of moderate- and heavy-intensity infections and the overall STH infection prevalence mainly through preventive chemothe...