Soil-transmitted helminth reinfection after drug treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Published in: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Tie-Wu Jia, Sara Melville, Jürg Utzinger, Charles H King, Xiao-Nong Zhou
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Isi
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001621; https://doaj.org/article/28a97f1bd15c43f195c885439875fd58

Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections (i.e., Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm, and Trichuris trichiura) affect more than a billion people. Preventive chemotherapy (i.e., repeated administration of anthelmintic drugs to at-risk populations), is the mainstay of control. This strategy, however, does...