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SUBMITTER: Yajima A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5582622 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yajima A A Gabrielli A F AF Montresor A A Engels D D
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 20110107 2
The authors conducted a systematic literature review with the following aims: to investigate how frequently soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) infections are endemic where schistosomiasis is present; and to assess the correlation between the risk level of schistosomiasis and that of STH. Among 155 sites on which data were collected and analyzed, schistosomiasis was present in 130, all of which were also co-endemic for STH, whereas 25 sites were endemic only for STH. Ninety percent (117 out of ...[more]