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Impact of single annual treatment and four-monthly treatment for hookworm and Ascaris lumbricoides, and factors associated with residual infection among Kenyan school children

BACKGROUND: School-based deworming is widely implemented in various countries to reduce the burden of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs), however, the frequency of drug administration varies in different settings. In this study, we compared the impact of a single annual treatment and 4-monthly treatm...

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Autores principales: Kepha, Stella, Mwandawiro, Charles S., Anderson, Roy M., Pullan, Rachel L., Nuwaha, Fred, Cano, Jorge, Njenga, Sammy M., Odiere, Maurice R., Allen, Elizabeth, Brooker, Simon J., Nikolay, Birgit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28179024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-017-0244-z