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SUBMITTER: Montresor A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5580801 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Montresor Antonio A À Porta Natacha N Albonico Marco M Gabrielli Albis Francesco AF Jankovic Dina D Fitzpatrick Christopher C Vercruysse Jozef J Levecke Bruno B
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 20141116 4
<h4>Background</h4>Recently, WHO has developed a predictive model to evaluate the impact of preventive chemotherapy programs to control the morbidity of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs). To make predictions, this model needs baseline information about the proportion of infections classified as low, moderate and high intensity, for each of the three STH species. However, epidemiological data available are often limited to prevalence estimates.<h4>Methods</h4>We reanalyzed available data from 19 ...[more]