Need for a paradigm shift in soil-transmitted helminthiasis control: Targeting the right people, in the right place, and with the right drug(s)
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
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2024 Oct 21;18(10):e0012521.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012521.
eCollection 2024 Oct.
Authors
Paul M Emerson
1
,
Darin Evans
2
,
Matthew C Freeman
3
,
Christy Hanson
4
,
Khumbo Kalua
5
,
Jennifer Keiser
6
7
,
Alejandro Krolewiecki
8
9
,
Lynn Leonard
10
,
Bruno Levecke
11
,
Sultani Matendechero
12
,
Arianna Rubin Means
13
,
Antonio Montresor
14
,
Denise Mupfasoni
15
,
Rachel L Pullan
16
,
Lisa A Rotondo
17
,
Mariana Stephens
1
,
Kristin M Sullivan
1
,
Judd L Walson
18
,
Tijana Williams
19
,
Jürg Utzinger
6
7
Affiliations
1
Children Without Worms, The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America.
2
United States Agency for International Development, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America.
3
Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
4
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
5
Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach, Blantyre, Malawi.
6
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland.
7
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
8
Instituto de Investigaciones de Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Nacional de Salta/CONICET, Oran, Argentina.
9
Fundacion Mundo Sano, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
10
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America.
11
Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium.
12
Kenya National Public Health Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
13
Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
14
Ivo de Carneri Foundation, Milano, Italy.
15
Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
16
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
17
RTI International, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America.
18
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
19
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
PMID:
39432840
PMCID:
PMC11493411
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pntd.0012521
No abstract available
Grants and funding
The authors received no specific funding for this work.