The morbidity attributable to Schistosoma japonicum infection in 3 villages in Dongting Lake region, Hunan Province, PR China

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 646-654

  Booth, Mark ^a   Guyatt, Helen L ^b   Li, Yuesheng ^c   Tanner, Marcel ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c HUNAN INSTITUTE OF PARASITIC DISEASES   (China)

Author keywords

Attributable morbidity; China; S. japonicum infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; VERMES;

EID: 0029962697     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.1996.tb00090.x     Document Type: Article

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