TY - JOUR KW - Nutrition KW - Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) KW - WaSH intervention AU - Pickering AJ AU - Njenga S AU - Steinbaum L AU - Swarthout J AU - Lin A AU - Arnold B AU - Stewart C AU - Dentz HN AU - Mureithi M AU - Chieng B AU - Wolfe M AU - Mahoney R AU - Kihara J AU - Byrd K AU - Rao G AU - Meerkerk T AU - Cheruiyot P AU - Papaiakovou M AU - Pilotte N AU - Williams SA AU - Colford J AU - Null C AU - Byass P AB -

Helminth and protozoan infections affect more than 1 billion children globally. Improving water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition could be more sustainable control strategies for parasite infections than mass drug administration, while providing other quality of life benefits.

BT - PLOS Medicine DO - 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002841 IS - 6105538316926 J2 - PLoS Med LA - eng N2 -

Helminth and protozoan infections affect more than 1 billion children globally. Improving water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition could be more sustainable control strategies for parasite infections than mass drug administration, while providing other quality of life benefits.

PY - 2019 T2 - PLOS Medicine TI - Effects of single and integrated water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition interventions on child soil-transmitted helminth and Giardia infections: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Kenya UR - https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002841&type=printable ER -