Relationship of childhood protein-energy malnutrition and parasite infections in an urban African setting

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 374-382

  Tshikuka, Jose Gaby ^a   Gray Donald, Katherine ^a,c   Scott, Marilyn ^a   Olela, Kalumba Nkongolo ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Paediatrie   (Haïti)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

A. lumbricoides; hookworm; kwashiorkor; parasites; Plasmodium; protein energy malnutrition; stunting; T. trichiura; wasting

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; KWASHIORKOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; TRICHINOSIS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

EID: 0030898147     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.1997.tb00154.x     Document Type: Article

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