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    What does soil-transmitted helminth elimination look like? Results from a targeted molecular detection survey in Japan

    Japan is one of the few countries believed to have eliminated soil-transmitted helminths (STHs). In 1949, the national prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides was 62.9%, which decreased to 0.6% in 1973 due to improvem...

    Mitsuko Hasegawa, Nils Pilotte, Mihoko Kikuchi, Arianna R. Means in Parasites & Vectors (2020)