The benefits of mass deworming on health outcomes: new evidence synthesis, the debate persists

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¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94025, USA. Electronic address: jandr@stanford.edu.
² Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94025, USA. Electronic address: jandr@stanford.edu.
² Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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