Effect of sanitation improvements on soil-transmitted helminth eggs in courtyard soil from rural Bangladesh: Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial.

• Main Authors: Laura H Kwong (Author), Debashis Sen (Author), Sharmin Islam (Author), Sunny Shahriar (Author), Jade Benjamin-Chung (Author), Benjamin F Arnold (Author), Alan Hubbard (Author), Sarker Masud Parvez (Author), Mahfuza Islam (Author), Leanne Unicomb (Author), Md Mahbubur Rahman (Author), Kara Nelson (Author), John M Colford (Author), Stephen P Luby (Author), Ayse Ercumen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Improved sanitation has been hypothesized to reduce soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections by reducing the prevalence and concentration of STH eggs/larvae in soil. We evaluated the effect of a randomized sanitation program (providing households with an improved dual-pit latrine, tools for child/...