The promise and pitfalls of mass drug administration to control intestinal helminth infections.

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Published in Curr Opin Infect Dis on October 01, 2012

Authors

Debbie Humphries1, Sara Nguyen, Daniel Boakye, Michael Wilson, Michael Cappello

Author Affiliations

1: Program in International Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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