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Review
. 2003 Aug 23;327(7412):431-3.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7412.431.

Helminthic infections

Shally Awasthi  1 , D A P Bundy, Lorenzo Savioli
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Review

Helminthic infections

Shally Awasthi et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Parasitic worms have largely been overlooked by medicine, but attitudes are changing with the realisation that they can seriously affect child development and that treatment is easy and cheap

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Figure 1
Intensity of infection with Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura by age of human host (adapted from Warren et al 19931)
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