Global progress towards eliminating gastrointestinal helminth infections

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 18-24

  McCarty, Thomas R ^a   Turkeltaub, Joshua A ^a   Hotez, Peter J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

food borne trematode; liver fluke infection; mass drug administration; neglected tropical diseases; soil transmitted helminth

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZIMIDAZOLE; DICLOFENAC COLESTYRAMINE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; HELMINTHIASIS VACCINE; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE; MONEPANTEL; MOXIDECTIN; PRAZIQUANTEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ARGENTINA; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BRAZIL; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHINA; CLONORCHIASIS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; DRUG SAFETY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FASCIOLOPSIASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRACHOMA; TREMATODIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

ANTHELMINTICS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; NEGLECTED DISEASES; VACCINES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84890427809     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: 15317056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOG.0000000000000025     Document Type: Review

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