Drug-based helminth control in Western Pacific countries: A general perspective

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 935-944

  Urbani, Carlo ^a   Palmer, Kevin ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asia; Control; Helminth; Mass treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; DRUG; TRACE ELEMENT;

DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG PRESCRIBING; MORBIDITY; PARASITIC DISEASE;

ASIA; COGNITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FILARIASIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MORBIDITY; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITOSIS; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CHILD; FILARIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASIA;

TREMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 0034771297     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2001.00820.x     Document Type: Review

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