Global feasibility assessment of interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths: A statistical modelling study

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 941-950

  Brooker, Simon J ^a   Nikolay, Birgit ^a   Balabanova, Dina ^a   Pullan, Rachel L ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HELMINTHIASIS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; NEGLECTED DISEASE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; TROPICAL DISEASE; ANIMAL; HELMINTH; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PARASITOLOGY; SOIL;

SOIL;

ANIMALS; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEGLECTED DISEASES; SOIL;

EID: 84937732543     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70042-3     Document Type: Article

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