What does soil-transmitted helminth elimination look like? Results from a targeted molecular detection survey in Japan

BACKGROUND: Japan is one of the few countries believed to have eliminated soil-transmitted helminths (STHs). In 1949, the national prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides was 62.9%, which decreased to 0.6% in 1973 due to improvements in infrastructure, socioeconomic status, and the implementation of nati...

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Autores principales: Hasegawa, Mitsuko, Pilotte, Nils, Kikuchi, Mihoko, Means, Arianna R., Papaiakovou, Marina, Gonzalez, Andrew M., Maasch, Jacqueline R. M. A., Ikuno, Hiroshi, Sunahara, Toshihiko, Ásbjörnsdóttir, Kristjana H., Walson, Judd L., Williams, Steven A., Hamano, Shinjiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6950881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31915050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3875-z

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