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Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections among Plantation Sector Schoolchildren in Sri Lanka: Prevalence after Ten Years of Preventive Chemotherapy

BACKGROUND: The plantation sector in Sri Lanka lags behind the rest of the country in terms of living conditions and health. In 1992, a sector-wide survey of children aged 3–12 years and women of reproductive age showed >90% prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections. Biannual mass de-wor...

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Autores principales:	Gunawardena, Kithsiri, Kumarendran, Balachandran, Ebenezer, Roshini, Gunasingha, Muditha Sanjeewa, Pathmeswaran, Arunasalam, de Silva, Nilanthi
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2011
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181244/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21980549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001341

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