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

• Principais autores: Denise Mupfasoni (Autor), Mathieu Bangert (Autor), Alexei Mikhailov (Autor), Chiara Marocco (Autor), Antonio Montresor (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: BMC, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...