A new paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases analyses soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection in South America, finding that risk of contracting STH infection has substantially reduced since 2005.
10 April 2013
The Lancet Infectious Diseases recently published a new article entitled Soil-transmitted helminth infection in South America: a systematic review and geostatistical meta-analysis, which found that the risk of contracting STH infection in the continent has substantially reduced since 2005. Through a systematic review and geostatistical analysis, the team of researchers from Brazil and Switzerland concluded that their findings can serve as baseline evidence for programmes working on spatial targeting of STH.
Read the full article here.