Sustaining Progress towards NTD Elimination: An Opportunity to Leverage Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programs to Interrupt Transmission of Soil-Transmitted Helminths

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Means, Arianna Rubin ^a,b   Ásbjörnsdóttir, Kristjana ^a,b   Mwandawiro, Charles ^c   Rollinson, David ^b   Jacobson, Julie ^d   Littlewood, Tim ^b   Walson, Judd L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MUSEUM OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; MEBENDAZOLE; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALAISE; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION; TROPICAL DISEASE; WATER POLLUTION; ANIMAL; NEGLECTED DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; SOIL;

ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; SOIL;

EID: 84980315403     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004737     Document Type: Article

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