High Cryptosporidium prevalences in healthy Aymara children from the Northern Bolivian Altiplano

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 50-55

  Esteban, Jose Guillermo ^a   Aguirre, Carlos ^a   Flores, Angela ^a   Strauss, Wilma ^b   Angles, Rene ^b   Mas Coma, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Inst Nac Labs Salud Nestor MV   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0031895979     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1998.58.50     Document Type: Article

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