Community-based interventions for the prevention and control of helmintic neglected tropical diseases

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Salam, Rehana A ^a   Maredia, Hasina ^b   Das, Jai K ^a   Lassi, Zohra S ^a   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a,c  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community based interventions; Neglected tropical diseases; Soil transmitted helminthiasis

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; MEBENDAZOLE; OXANTEL; PRAZIQUANTEL; PYRANTEL;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; DRACUNCULIASIS; DRUG EFFECT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; META ANALYSIS; NEGLECTED DISEASE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SANITATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOIL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRICHURIASIS; TROPICAL DISEASE;

EID: 84930190183     PISSN: 20955162     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-9957-3-23     Document Type: Article

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