Predictors for the risk of hookworm infection: Experience from endemic villages in southern Thailand

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 630-633

  Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi ^a   Pas Ong, Suparb ^a   McNeil, Don ^b   Geater, Alan ^a   Duerawee, Mapasaosis ^a  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hookworm; Risk factors; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEFECATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL HYGIENE; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THAILAND;

EID: 0030449840     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(96)90412-5     Document Type: Article

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