Peiling Yap|Zhenhong Du|Fangwei Wu|Jinyong Jiang|Ran Chen|Xiao?Nong Zhou|Jan Hattendorf|Jürg Utzinger|Peter Steinmann
Rapid Re-Infection with Soil-Transmitted Helminths after Triple-Dose Albendazole Treatment of School-Aged Children in Yunnan, People's Republic of China
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
posttreatment soiltransmitted helminth reinfection patterns studied part randomized controlled trial among schoolaged children ethnic minority group yunnan province peoples republic china children soiltransmitted helminth infection n 194 randomly assigned tripledose albendazole placebo infection status monitored 6month period using katokatz baermann techniques baseline prevalence trichuris trichiura ascaris lumbricoides hookworm strongyloides stercoralis 945 933 613 31 respectively half participants harboring triplespecies infections intervention group n 99 1month posttreatment cure rates 967 915 196 hookworm lumbricoides trichiura respectively egg reduction rates 88 three species rapid reinfection lumbricoides observed prevalence 4 6 months posttreatment 758 838 respectively reinfection hookworm trichiura considerably slower