Parental infection confounded with local infection intensity as risk factors for childhood microfilaraemia in bancroftian filariasis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-24

  Alexander, N D E ^a,b   Kazura, J W ^c   Bockarie, M J ^a   Perry, R T ^a,c   Dimber, Z B ^a   Grenfell, B T ^b   Alpers, M P ^a  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b Department of Zoology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Filariasis; Papua New Guinea; Risk factors; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0031907528     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)90938-5     Document Type: Article

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