From morbidity control to transmission control: Time to change tactics against helminths on Unguja Island, Zanzibar

Acta Tropica

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 412-422

  Knopp, Stefanie ^a,b   Stothard, J Russell ^c   Rollinson, David ^c   Mohammed, Khalfan A ^d   Khamis, I Simba ^d   Marti, Hanspeter ^a,b   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d Elderly and Children   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Ascaris lumbricoides; Elimination; Hookworm; Morbidity control; Schistosoma haematobium; Schistosomiasis; Soil transmitted helminthiasis; Strongyloides stercoralis; Tanzania; Transmission control; Trichuris trichiura; Zanzibar

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL; WATER;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HYGIENE; MORBIDITY; SANITATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EATING; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LARVA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TANZANIA; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; URINALYSIS; URINARY SCHISTOSOMIASIS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR ISLAND;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ELIMINATION; HOOKWORM; MORBIDITY CONTROL; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TANZANIA; TRANSMISSION CONTROL; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; ZANZIBAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHEMOPREVENTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HAND DISINFECTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; TANZANIA; URINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874646562     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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