Journal article
Achieving elimination as a public health problem for Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium: When is community-wide treatment required?
- Abstract:
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has set elimination as a public health problem (EPHP) as a goal for schistosomiasis. As the WHO treatment guidelines for schistosomiasis are currently under revision, we investigate whether school-based or community-wide treatment strategies are required for achieving the EPHP goal. In low- to moderate-transmission settings with good school enrolment, we find that school-based treatment is sufficient for achieving EPHP. However, community-wide treatment is ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 221
- Issue:
- Supplement 5
- Pages:
- S525–S530
- Place of publication:
- United States
- Publication date:
- 2019-12-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-11-14
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1537-6613
- ISSN:
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0022-1899
- Pmid:
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31829414
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1077486
- Local pid:
- pubs:1077486
- Deposit date:
- 2020-02-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Toor et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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