de Sousa, Sergei Rodrigo Magalhães http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2197-7323
Dias, Isabelle Helena Lima
Fonseca, Álvaro Luan Santana
Contente, Bianca Rodrigues
Nogueira, Joyce Favacho Cardoso
da Costa Oliveira, Tatyellen Natasha
Geiger, Stefan Michael
Enk, Martin Johannes
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Pará (0042017)
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI/CNPq/MS-SCTIE-Decit n 40/2012)
Article History
Received: 29 January 2019
Accepted: 16 May 2019
First Online: 30 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The project was submitted to the ethics committee and approved, with CAAE: 21824513.9.0000.5091. Children younger than 2 years were excluded according to the study protocol. All participants signed a consent form before enrolment. Individuals diagnosed as having schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth infections were treated in accordance with the Brazilian Ministry of Health guidelines.
: The authors agree that the copyright of the article submitted hereby, to be published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases of Poverty is transferred, throughout the world and for the full term and all extensions and renewals thereof to this journal.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.