Building on the success of soil-transmitted helminth control - The future of deworming

Peter Mark Jourdan¹, Antonio Montresor², Judd L Walson^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ DeWorm3, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Departments of Global Health, Internal Medicine (Allergy and Infectious Disease), Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

Peter Mark Jourdan et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017.

. 2017 Apr 20;11(4):e0005497.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005497. eCollection 2017 Apr.

Peter Mark Jourdan¹, Antonio Montresor², Judd L Walson^{1

3}

¹ DeWorm3, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Departments of Global Health, Internal Medicine (Allergy and Infectious Disease), Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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