Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Jan 2016
Schistosomiasis in school-age children in Burkina Faso after a decade of preventive chemotherapy.
To assess the impact of a decade of biennial mass administration of praziquantel on schistosomiasis in school-age children in Burkina Faso. ⋯ By mass use of preventive chemotherapy, Burkina Faso may have eliminated schistosomiasis as a public health problem in eight regions and controlled schistosome-related morbidity in another three regions.