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The past matters: estimating intrinsic hookworm transmission intensity in areas with past mass drug administration to control lymphatic filariasis
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Background Current WHO guidelines for soil-transmitted helminth (STH) control focus on mass drug administration (MDA) targeting preschool-aged (pre-SAC) and school-aged children (SAC), with the goal of eliminating STH as a public health problem amongst children. Recently, attention and funding has turned towards the question whether MDA alone can result in the interruption of transmission for STH. The lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination programme, have been successful in reaching whole comm...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMC (part of Springer Nature) Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Parasites & vectors Journal website
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 254
- Place of publication:
- England
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1756-3305
- ISSN:
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1756-3305
- Pmid:
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28535806
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1059218
- Local pid:
- pubs:1059218
- Deposit date:
- 2020-04-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Marleen Werkman et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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