Epidemiology of hookworm infection in Kintampo North Municipality, Ghana: patterns of malaria coinfection, anemia, and albendazole treatment failure.

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Published in Am J Trop Med Hyg on May 01, 2011

Authors

Debbie Humphries1, Emily Mosites, Joseph Otchere, Welbeck Amoani Twum, Lauren Woo, Hinckley Jones-Sanpei, Lisa M Harrison, Richard D Bungiro, Blair Benham-Pyle, Langbong Bimi, Dominic Edoh, Kwabena Bosompem, Michael Wilson, Michael Cappello

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health, Yale University, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. debbie.humphries@yale.edu

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