Soil-transmitted helminthic infection and its effect on nutritional status of adolescent schoolgirls of low socioeconomic status in Sri Lanka

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-22

  Atukorala, T M Sunethra ^a   Lanerolle, Pulani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; RETINOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS; BODY MASS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION RISK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL; SRI LANKA; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; URBAN AREA; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0032968857     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/45.1.18     Document Type: Article

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