Reducing occurrence of Giardia duodenalis in children living in semiarid regions: impact of a large scale rainwater harvesting initiative.

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Published in PLoS Negl Trop Dis on June 19, 2014

Authors

Jacqueline Evangelista Fonseca1, Mariângela Carneiro2, João Luiz Pena1, Enrico A Colosimo3, Nívea Bispo da Silva3, André Gabriel F C da Costa3, Luciano E Moreira4, Sandy Cairncross5, Léo Heller1

Author Affiliations

1: School of Engineering; Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
2: Department of Parasitology; Institute of Biological Sciences and Graduate Program in Health Sciences: Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
3: Department of Statistics; Institute of Mathematical Sciences - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
4: Laboratory of Parasitology - Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos, Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
5: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

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