The use of morbidity questionnaires to identify communities with high prevalences of schistosome or geohelminth infections in Tanzania

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 484-490

  Booth, M ^a   Mayombana, C ^b   Machibya, H ^c   Masanja, H ^b   Odermatt, P ^a,b   Utzinger, J ^a,b   Kilima, P ^d  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c District Health Office   (Tanzania)

^d Elderly and Children   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Ascaris lumbricoides; Childre; Geohelminthiasis; Hookworms; Morbidity; Prevalence assessment; Questionnaire; Schistosoma haematobium; Schistosoma mansoni; Schistosomiasis; Tanzania; Trichuris trichiura

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD; DIARRHEA; FECES; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMATURIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PARASITOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLENOMEGALY; TANZANIA; TRICHURIS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

EID: 0031765143     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)90884-7     Document Type: Article

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