Acceptance and use of communal filtration units in guinea worm eradication

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-52

  Aikhomu, S E ^a,b,c   Brieger, W R ^b   Kale, O O ^a  

^a Nigerian Guinea Worm Eradication Programme   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^c Nigerian Guinea Worm Eradication Programme   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Communal filtration units; Dracunculiasis; Filters; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

DRINKING WATER; FILTRATION; HEALTH CARE; PARASITE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRACUNCULIASIS; EVALUATION; FILTER; FILTRATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NIGERIA; NORMAL HUMAN; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; DRACUNCULIASIS; DRACUNCULUS NEMATODE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; NIGERIA; RURAL POPULATION; TEXTILES; WATER; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

NIGERIA;

DRACUNCULUS MEDINENSIS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0033975996     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2000.00510.x     Document Type: Article

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