Community-wide deworming strategies to reduce high hookworm burden in endemic communities: Results from a cluster randomized trial in Southern India

• Rohan Michael Ramesh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rohan Michael Ramesh, Rajiv Sarkar

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Rajiv Sarkar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rohan Michael Ramesh, Rajiv Sarkar

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: rajiv.sarkar@iiphs.ac.in (RS); sitararao@cmcvellore.ac.in (SSRA)

  Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, Indian Institute of Public Health, Shillong, India

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• Vasanthakumar Velusamy,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Srinivasan Venugopal,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Anuradha Rose,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Venkata R. Mohan,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Vinohar Balraj,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Vedantam Rajshekhar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurological Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Kuryan George,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Jayaprakash Muliyil,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, Department of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Nicholas C. Grassly,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Simon J. Brooker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Roy M. Anderson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Gagandeep Kang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rajiv.sarkar@iiphs.ac.in (RS); sitararao@cmcvellore.ac.in (SSRA)

  Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3419-6577

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