Reassessment of the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Sri Lanka to enable a more focused control programme: a cross-sectional national school survey with spatial modelling

Reassessment of the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Sri Lanka to enable a more focused control programme: a cross-sectional national school survey with spatial modelling

Summary: Background: In Sri Lanka, deworming programmes for soil-transmitted helminth infections became an integral part of school health in the 1960s, whereas routine antenatal deworming with mebendazole started in the 1980s. A 2003 national soil-transmitted helminth survey done among schoolchildr...

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Main Authors: Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera, MSc, Sharmini Gunawardena, ProfMD, Nipul Kithsiri Gunawardena, ProfPhD, Devika Iddawela, ProfPhD, Selvam Kannathasan, ProfPhD, Arumugam Murugananthan, MPhil, Channa Yahathugoda, ProfPhD, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, ProfMD, Peter John Diggle, ProfPhD, Nilanthi de Silva, ProfMD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X19302530

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