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Exploring the Relationship between Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection: A Demonstration of Two Recursive Partitioning Tools

BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) – a class of parasites that affect billions of people – can be mitigated using mass drug administration, though reinfection following treatment occurs within a few months. Improvements to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) likely provide sustained benef...

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Main Authors: Gass, Katherine, Addiss, David G., Freeman, Matthew C.
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4055441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24921253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002945