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The public health benefit and burden of mass drug administration programs in Vietnamese schoolchildren: Impact of mebendazole

BACKGROUND: Mass anthelmintic drug administration is recommended in developing countries to address infection by soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH). We quantified the public health benefit of treatment with mebendazole in eight million Vietnamese children aged 5–14 years from 2006 to 2011. This wa...

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Autores principales: Debaveye, Sam, Gonzalez Torres, Claudia Virginia, De Smedt, Delphine, Heirman, Bert, Kavanagh, Shane, Dewulf, Jo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6258429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30419030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006954