Sustaining Progress Towards NTD Elimination: An Opportunity to Leverage Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Programs to Interrupt Transmission of Soil-Transmitted Helminths

Overview

Journal PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Tropical Medicine

Date 2016 Jul 15

PMID 27416062

Citations 17

Authors

Arianna Rubin Means

Kristjana Asbjornsdottir

Charles Mwandawiro

David Rollinson

Julie Jacobson

Tim Littlewood

Judd L Walson

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