Publication: Disease burden and epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminthiases and schistosomiasis in Asia: the Japanese perspective
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2007-01-01
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14714922
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Trends in Parasitology. Vol.23, No.1 (2007), 30-35
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Nobuo Ohta, Jitra Waikagul Disease burden and epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminthiases and schistosomiasis in Asia: the Japanese perspective. Trends in Parasitology. Vol.23, No.1 (2007), 30-35. doi:10.1016/j.pt.2006.11.007 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/24596
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Disease burden and epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminthiases and schistosomiasis in Asia: the Japanese perspective
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The disease burden due to soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) and schistosomiasis is not well documented in Asia. Both STH and schistosomiasis are chronic diseases but case detection is not easy because of the absence of clinical symptoms. STH and schistosomiasis are, however, endemic in Asia and their burden is significant. At the preparatory meeting for the Hashimoto Initiative in Japan in 1997, STH and schistosomiasis were categorized as Group 2 diseases. Parasitic infections in this category were well understood at the time but sophisticated control strategies were lacking. Japan has promoted comprehensive collaborative projects to reduce the burden of STH and schistosomiasis throughout Asia, creating an international network to collect epidemiological information and to implement and improve disease control, thus extending the school-based control method that had proved so successful in Japan. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.