Toward the 2020 goal of soil-transmitted helminthiasis control and elimination

Sören L Becker^{1

2

3}, Harvy Joy Liwanag^{1

2

4}, Jedidiah S Snyder^{5

6}, Oladele Akogun^{7

8}, Vicente Belizario Jr^{7

9}, Matthew C Freeman^{7

10}, Theresa W Gyorkos^{7

11}, Rubina Imtiaz^{5

7}, Jennifer Keiser^{1

2}, Alejandro Krolewiecki^{7

12}, Bruno Levecke¹³, Charles Mwandawiro^{7

14}, Rachel L Pullan^{7

15}, David G Addiss^{5

7}, Jürg Utzinger^{1

2

7}

Affiliations

¹ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
² University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
⁴ Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, Ateneo de Manila University, Metro Manila, the Philippines.
⁵ Children Without Worms, The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America.
⁶ Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
⁷ Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis Advisory Committee, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America.
⁸ Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Nigeria.
⁹ College of Public Health, University of the Philippines, Manila, the Philippines.
¹⁰ Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
¹² Instituto de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Oran, Argentina.
¹³ Department of Virology, Parasitology, and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
¹⁴ Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁵ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

Sören L Becker et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018.

. 2018 Aug 14;12(8):e0006606.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006606. eCollection 2018 Aug.

¹ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
² University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
⁴ Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, Ateneo de Manila University, Metro Manila, the Philippines.
⁵ Children Without Worms, The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America.
⁶ Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
⁷ Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis Advisory Committee, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America.
⁸ Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Nigeria.
⁹ College of Public Health, University of the Philippines, Manila, the Philippines.
¹⁰ Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
¹² Instituto de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Oran, Argentina.
¹³ Department of Virology, Parasitology, and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
¹⁴ Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁵ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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