Experience with school-based interventions against soil-transmitted helminths and extension of coverage to non-enrolled children

Acta Tropica

Volumn 86, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 255-266

  Olsen, Annette ^a  

^a DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Control; Non enrolled children; Pre school children; Schoolchildren; Soil transmitted helminths

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; MEBENDAZOLE;

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TREATMENT; PARASITIC DISEASE;

ABSENTEEISM; CHILD CARE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MEDICAL STAFF; MORBIDITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOIL; TEACHER; TRICHURIS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 0037654959     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(03)00046-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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