Should the goal for the treatment of soil transmitted helminth (STH) infections be changed from morbidity control in children to community-wide transmission elimination?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Anderson, Roy M ^a   Turner, Hugo C ^a   Truscott, James E ^a   Deirdre Hollingsworth T ^b,c   Brooker, Simon J ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84940648641     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003897     Document Type: Article

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