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Impact of the scale-up of piped water on urogenital schistosomiasis infection in rural South Africa

Recent work has estimated that sub-Saharan Africa could lose US$3.5 billion of economic productivity every year as a result of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis. One of the main interventions to control schistosomiasis is the provision of safe water to limit the contact with infecte...

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Autores principales: Tanser, Frank, Azongo, Daniel K, Vandormael, Alain, Bärnighausen, Till, Appleton, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29460779
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.33065