Improvements in physical fitness of Kenyan schoolboys infected with hookworm, Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides following a single dose of albendazole

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 277-282

  Stephenson, Lani S ^a   Latham, Michael C ^a   Kinoti, Stephen N ^b   Kurz, Kathleen M ^a   Brigham, Heather ^c  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; DRUG EFFICACY; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FITNESS; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; KENYA; NEMATODE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRICHURIS;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMAL; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMAN; KENYA; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 0025365860     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(90)90286-N     Document Type: Article

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