Investigating the Effectiveness of Current and Modified World Health Organization Guidelines for the Control of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections | Zendy

Sam H. Farrell | Zendy; Luc E. Coffeng | Zendy; James E. Truscott | Zendy; Marleen Werkman | Zendy; Jaspreet Toor | Zendy; Sake J. de Vlas | Zendy; Roy M. Anderson | Zendy

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Investigating the Effectiveness of Current and Modified World Health Organization Guidelines for the Control of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections

Author(s) -

Sam H. Farrell,

Luc E. Coffeng,

James E. Truscott,

Marleen Werkman,

Jaspreet Toor,

Sake J. de Vlas,

Roy M. Anderson

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciy002

Subject(s) - current (fluid) , helminth infections , helminths , control (management) , medicine , environmental health , immunology , engineering , management , economics , electrical engineering

Considerable efforts have been made to better understand the effectiveness of large-scale preventive chemotherapy therapy for the control of morbidity caused by infection with soil-transmitted helminths (STHs): Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and the 2 hookworm species, Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale. Current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for STH control include mass drug administration (MDA) programs based on prevalence measurements, aiming at reducing morbidity in pre-school-aged children (pre-SAC) and school-aged children (SAC) by lowering the prevalence of moderate- to heavy-intensity infections to <1%.

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