Closing the praziquantel treatment gap: New steps in epidemiological monitoring and control of schistosomiasis in African infants and preschool-aged children

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1593-1606

  Stothard, J Russell ^a   Sousa Figueiredo, José C ^a,b   Betson, Martha ^a   Green, Helen K ^a   Seto, Edmund Y W ^c   Garba, Amadou ^d   Sacko, Moussa ^e   Mutapi, Francisca ^f   Vaz Nery, Susana ^g   Amin, Mutamad A ^h   Mutumba Nakalembe, Margaret ⁱ   Navaratnam, Annalan ⁱ   Fenwick, Alan ⁱ   Kabatereine, Narcis B ^j   Gabrielli, Albis F ^k   Montresor, Antonio ^k  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Ministry of Health Niamey   (Niger)

^e Institut National de Recherche en Sante Publique Mali   (Mali)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g CISA Project   (Angola)

^h AHFAD UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN   (Sudan)

ⁱ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^k WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

dose pole; faecal occult blood; GPS dataloggers; Maternal and child health; morbidity markers; preventive chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; WATER;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; FATIGUE; HEPATOMEGALY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MONITORING; OCCULT BLOOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPLENOMEGALY; TROPICAL DISEASE; UGANDA; VERTIGO; VOMITING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AFRICA; AGE; ANIMAL; FECES; FEMALE; INFANT; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; STANDARDS;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

AFRICA; AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; FECES; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMANS; INFANT; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SPLENOMEGALY; WATER;

EID: 84855647097     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011001235     Document Type: Article

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