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SUBMITTER: Mogeni P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7108860 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mogeni Polycarp P Vandormael Alain A Cuadros Diego D Appleton Christopher C Tanser Frank F
eLife 20200317
Previously, we demonstrated that coverage of piped water in the seven years preceding a parasitological survey was strongly predictive of <i>Schistosomiasis haematobium</i> infection in a nested cohort of 1976 primary school children (Tanser, 2018). Here, we report on the prospective follow up of infected members of this nested cohort (N = 333) for two successive rounds following treatment. Using a negative binomial regression fitted to egg count data, we found that every percentage point increa ...[more]