Water, sanitation, hygiene, and soil-transmitted helminth infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND:Preventive chemotherapy represents a powerful but short-term control strategy for soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Since humans are often re-infected rapidly, long-term solutions require improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). The purpose of this study was to quantitatively...

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Main Authors: Eric C Strunz, David G Addiss, Meredith E Stocks, Stephanie Ogden, Jürg Utzinger, Matthew C Freeman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-03-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3965411?pdf=render