A school‐based approach to the control of urinary schistosomiasis and intestinal helminth infections in children in Matuga, Kenya: impact of a two‐year chemotherapy programme on prevalence and intensity of infections
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 2 (9), 825-831
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.1997.d01-407.x
Abstract
A school‐ and chemotherapy‐based urinary schistosomiasis and intestinal helminth infection control programme was conducted in Matuga Division, Kwale District, Coast Province with teachers taking care...Keywords
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