Tungiasis among five communities in south-western Trinidad, West Indies

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-113

  Chadee, D D ^a  

^a Ministry of Health Trinidad and Tobago   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CHILD; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FLEA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; FOOT DERMATOSES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ARACHNIDA; ASYSTASIA GANGETICA; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TUNGA PENETRANS;

EID: 0031983083     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989860238     Document Type: Article

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