Reassessment of the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Sri Lanka to enable a more focused control programme: a cross-sectional national school survey with spatial modelling

BACKGROUND: In Sri Lanka, deworming programmes for soil-transmitted helminth infections became an integral part of school health in the 1960s, whereas routine antenatal deworming with mebendazole started in the 1980s. A 2003 national soil-transmitted helminth survey done among schoolchildren found a...

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Autores principales: Ediriweera, Dileepa Senajith, Gunawardena, Sharmini, Gunawardena, Nipul Kithsiri, Iddawela, Devika, Kannathasan, Selvam, Murugananthan, Arumugam, Yahathugoda, Channa, Pathmeswaran, Arunasalam, Diggle, Peter John, de Silva, Nilanthi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31331809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30253-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31331809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30253-0

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