Integrated school-based surveillance for soil-transmitted helminth infections and lymphatic filariasis in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 661-666

  Gunawardena, Sharmini ^a   Gunawardena, Nipul K ^b   Kahathuduwa, Ganga ^c   Karunaweera, Nadira D ^a   De Silva, Nilanthi R ^b   Ranasinghe, Udaya B ^d   Samarasekara, Sandhya D ^d   Nagodavithana, Kumara C ^d   Rao, Ramakrishna U ^e   Rebollo, Maria P ^f   Weil, Gary J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c Regional Anti Filariasis Unit Base Hospital Premises   (Sri Lanka)

^d Sri Lanka Ministry of Health and Nutrition   (Sri Lanka)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES ANALYSIS; FILARIAL ANTIGENEMIA; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; KATO KATZ METHOD; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOIL; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTION; SRI LANKA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FECES; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SOIL; SRI LANKA; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 84898759033     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0641     Document Type: Article

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