Is mass treatment the appropriate schistosomiasis elimination strategy?

OBJECTIVE: In the year 2000, the Philippines’ Department of Health adopted mass chemotherapy using praziquantel to eliminate schistosomiasis. Mass treatment was offered to an eligible population of 30 187 residents of 50 villages in Western Samar, the Philippines, in 2004 as part of an ongoing epide...

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Autores principales: Tallo, Veronica L, Carabin, Hélène, Alday, Portia P, Balolong, Ernesto Jr, Olveda, Remigio M, McGarvey, Stephen T
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: World Health Organization 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2649512/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18949213
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.07.047563
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