Community-level epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminths in the context of school-based deworming: Baseline results of a cluster randomised trial on the coast of Kenya

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 Aug 9;13(8):e0007427. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007427. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Abstract

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02397772.

Publication types

  • Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Ancylostoma
  • Animals
  • Ascaris lumbricoides
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Family Characteristics
  • Female
  • Health Surveys
  • Helminthiasis / drug therapy
  • Helminthiasis / epidemiology*
  • Helminthiasis / transmission*
  • Helminths
  • Humans
  • Kenya / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Necator americanus
  • Prevalence
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • Risk Factors
  • Schools*
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Soil / parasitology*
  • Trichuris
  • World Health Organization
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Soil

Associated data

  • ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT02397772