Prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths and associated risk factors among primary school children in Kandahar, Afghanistan: A cross-sectional analytical study

• Bilal Ahmad Rahimi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: drbilal77@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Malalay Institute of Higher Education, Kandahar, Afghanistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6630-5742

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• Najeebullah Rafiqi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Zarghoon Tareen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Khalil Ahmad Kakar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Malalay Institute of Higher Education, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Mohammad Hashim Wafa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Mohammad Asim Beg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Abdul Khaliq Dost,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kandahar University, Kandahar, Afghanistan

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• Walter R. Taylor

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Clinical Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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