An Increase in Hookworm Infection Temporally Associated with Ecologic Change

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 391-393

  Lilley, Bruce ^a   Lammie, Patrick ^b   Dickerson, Jennifer ^b   Eberhard, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; HAITI; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOIL; TRICHURIASIS;

ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; HAITI; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; SOIL; TRICHURIASIS;

EID: 0031179659     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0303.970321     Document Type: Article

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