Helminthic infections of urban and rural schoolchildren in Penang island, Malaysia: Implications for control

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 596-598

  Rahman, Wahab A ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; FEMALE; HEALTH; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALAYSIA; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; CHILD; FECES; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0032150835     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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