ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2015
Methodological Bias Can Lead the Cochrane Collaboration to Irrelevance in Public Health Decision-Making.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial of Maternal Postpartum Deworming to Improve Infant Weight Gain in the Peruvian Amazon.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2017Trial
- Soil-transmitted helminth infections and nutritional indices among Filipino schoolchildren.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- The global progress of soil-transmitted helminthiases control in 2020 and World Health Organization targets for 2030.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
- Mass deworming for improving health and cognition of children in endemic helminth areas: A systematic review and individual participant data network meta-analysis.Campbell systematic reviews · 2019Review
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- The public health benefit and burden of mass drug administration programs in Vietnamese schoolchildren: Impact of mebendazole.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Toward the 2020 goal of soil-transmitted helminthiasis control and elimination.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Risk of adverse swallowing events and choking during deworming for preschool-aged children.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Deworming in pre-school age children: A global empirical analysis of health outcomes.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Viewpoint on the review by Savioli and colleagues on the 2017 WHO guideline on soil-transmitted helminth infections in at-risk population groups.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Review of the 2017 WHO Guideline: Preventive chemotherapy to control soil-transmitted helminth infections in at-risk population groups. An opportunity lost in translation.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Review
- Most medical practices are not parachutes: a citation analysis of practices felt by biomedical authors to be analogous to parachutes.CMAJ open · 2018Article
- PROTOCOL: Mass deworming for improving health and cognition of children in endemic helminth areas: a systematic review and individual participant data network meta-analysis.Campbell systematic reviews · 2018Article
- The cross-cutting contribution of the end of neglected tropical diseases to the sustainable development goals.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2017Review
- Effectiveness of Albendazole for Hookworm Varies Widely by Community and Correlates with Nutritional Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study of School-Age Children in Ghana.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017Article
- A call to strengthen the global strategy against schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis: the time is now.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2017Review
- The impact of mass deworming programmes on schooling and economic development: an appraisal of long-term studies.International journal of epidemiology · 2016Article
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16 authors.
Antonio MontresorControl of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
David AddissChildren Without Worms, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America.
Marco AlbonicoWHO Collaborating Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania.
Said Mohammed AliWHO Collaborating Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania.
Steven K AultNeglected Infectious Diseases, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Regional Office for the Americas, Washington, DC, United States of America.
Albis-Francesco GabrielliNeglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
Amadou GarbaControl of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Elkhan GasimovMalaria, Other Vectorborne and Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Theresa GyorkosWHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Parasite Epidemiology and Control, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Mohamed Ahmed JamsheedVector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases Control, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India.
Bruno LeveckeWHO Collaborating Centre for the Monitoring of Anthelminthic Drug Efficacy for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
Pamela MbabaziControl of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Denise MupfasoniControl of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Lorenzo SavioliGlobal Schistosomiasis Alliance and Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania.
Jozef VercruysseWHO Collaborating Centre for the Monitoring of Anthelminthic Drug Efficacy for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
Aya YajimaMalaria, Other Vectorborne and Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines.
Funding
Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases (STH) and DewormingP50AI098574 · NIAID · CIVIL ASSOCIATION OF THE AMAZON JUNGLE · PI CASAPIA, WILFREDO MARTIN · 2012 to 2016
$1.5MNIAID NIH HHS P50 AI098574
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BiasDecision MakingEpidemiologic MethodsAnimalsAnthelminticsCommunicable Disease ControlCooperative BehaviorHelminthiasisHumansIntestinal Diseases, ParasiticAnthelmintics
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