Need for a Paradigm Shift in Soil-transmitted Helminthiasis Control: Targeting the Right People, in the Right Place, and with the Right Drug(s)

Overview

Journal PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Tropical Medicine

Date 2024 Oct 21

PMID 39432840

Authors

Paul M Emerson

Darin Evans

Matthew C Freeman

Christy Hanson

Khumbo Kalua

Jennifer Keiser

Alejandro Krolewiecki

Lynn Leonard

Bruno Levecke

Sultani Matendechero

Arianna Rubin Means

Antonio Montresor

Denise Mupfasoni

Rachel L Pullan

Lisa A Rotondo

Mariana Stephens

Kristin M Sullivan

Judd L Walson

Tijana Williams

Jurg Utzinger

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