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Soil-transmitted helminth infection in school age children in Sierra Leone after a decade of preventive chemotherapy interventions

BACKGROUND: Baseline mapping of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections among school age children (SAC) in 2008–2009 found high or moderate prevalence in 13 of the 14 districts in Sierra Leone. Following these surveys, mass drug administration (MDA) of mebendazole/albendazole was conducted biannu...

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Autores principales:	Bah, Yakuba Mohamed, Bah, Mohamed Salieu, Paye, Jusufu, Conteh, Abdulai, Saffa, Sam, Tia, Alie, Sonnie, Mustapha, Veinoglou, Amy, Amon, Joseph J., Hodges, Mary Hamer, Zhang, Yaobi
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2019
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604471/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31262367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-019-0553-5

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