Mass Drug Administration (MDA) for Schistosomiasis
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Human schistosomiasis in the post mass drug administration era.
Profound changes are occurring in the epidemiology of schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by a chronic infection with parasitic helminths of the genus Schistosoma. Schistosomiasis currently affects 240 million people worldwide, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. The advent and proliferation of mass drug administration (MDA) programmes using the drug praziquantel is resulting in subs...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0022-1899,1537-6613
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu506