Improved mapping strategy to better inform policy on the control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Sierra Leone

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hodges, Mary ^a   Dada, Nsa ^b   Wamsley, Anna ^b   Paye, Jusufu ^c   Nyorkor, Emanuel ^d   Sonnie, Mustapha ^a   Barnish, Guy ^b   Bockarie, Moses ^b   Zhang, Yaobi ^a  

^a HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE   (Sierra Leone)

^d NJALA UNIVERSITY   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SIERRA LEONE; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASIS; TRICHURIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HELMINTH; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 79957914331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-97     Document Type: Article

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