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Soil-Transmitted Helminth Reinfection after Drug Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections (i.e., Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm, and Trichuris trichiura) affect more than a billion people. Preventive chemotherapy (i.e., repeated administration of anthelmintic drugs to at-risk populations), is the mainstay of control. This strategy, h...

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Autores principales: Jia, Tie-Wu, Melville, Sara, Utzinger, Jürg, King, Charles H., Zhou, Xiao-Nong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3348161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22590656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001621