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. 2010 Nov 16;7(11):e1000363.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000363.

Sanitation and health

Duncan Mara  1 , Jon Lane, Beth Scott, David Trouba
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Sanitation and health

Duncan Mara et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

As one article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation, David Trouba and colleagues discuss the importance of improved sanitation to health and the role that the health sector can play in its advocacy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. Faeco-oral disease transmission pathways and interventions to break them.
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