Health-education package to prevent worm infections in Chinese schoolchildren

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 1603-1612

  Bieri, Franziska A ^a,b   Gray, Darren J ^a,b   Williams, Gail M ^b   Raso, Giovanna ^c,d   Li, Yue Sheng ^a,e   Yuan, Liping ^e   He, Yongkang ^e   Li, Robert S ^b   Guo, Feng Ying ^e   Li, Sheng Ming ^e   McManus, Donald P ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^e HUNAN INSTITUTE OF PARASITIC DISEASES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRICHURIASIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 84876548302     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1204885     Document Type: Article

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