No Apparent Reduction in Schistosome Burden or Genetic Diversity Following Four Years of School-Based Mass Drug Administration in Mwea, Central Kenya, a Heavy Transmission Area

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Lelo, Agola E ^a   Mburu, David N ^b   Magoma, Gabriel N ^c   Mungai, Ben N ^a   Kihara, Jimmy H ^a   Mwangi, Ibrahim N ^a   Maina, Geoffrey M ^a   Kinuthia, Joseph M ^a   Mutuku, Martin W ^a   Loker, Eric S ^d   Mkoji, Gerald M ^a   Steinauer, Michelle L ^e  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REINFECTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; ADULT; ANIMAL; COST OF ILLNESS; FECES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PARASITOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; FECES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOLS;

EID: 84920531789     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003221     Document Type: Article

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