Seroprevalence and risk factors of human cysticercosis in a community of Shandong, China

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-285

  Cao, W C ^a,b   Van Der Ploeg, C P B ^b   Gao, C L ^a   Xu, J F ^a   Cao, X C ^a   Cui, Z H ^a   Ren, Z X ^a   Habbema, J D F ^b  

^a Shandong Institute of Parasitic Diseases   (China)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYSTICERCOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUBURBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0030154503     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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