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Is there a difference in prevalence of helminths between households using ecological sanitation and those using traditional pit latrines? A latrine based cross sectional comparative study in Malawi

BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that households using sludge from human excreta for agriculture are at an increased risk of soil transmitted helminths. However, while use of ecological sanitation (EcoSan) latrines is increasing in most African countries including Malawi, few studies have been done to...

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Autores principales: Kumwenda, Save, Msefula, Chisomo, Kadewa, Wilfred, Diness, Yohane, Kato, Charles, Morse, Tracy, Ngwira, Bagrey
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/PMC5466731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28599671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2519-7