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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-03-01
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| Series: | PLoS Medicine |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3965411?pdf=render |