Establishing control and breaking transmission: the importance of accurately classifying cure following treatment for soil-transmitted helminths

Soil-transmitted helminth infections (STH) remain among the most common pathogens infecting humans globally [1]. Cumulatively, these infections result in an estimated disease burden of 3.39 million disability adjusted life years annually [2]. In particular, high-intensity infections are associated with significant morbidity, particularly among children and pregnant women. Over the past several decades, deworming programs have adopted a high successful morbidity control strategy targeting empiric treatment of populations at highest risk of morbidity.

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