Giardia lamblia carriage in Israeli bedouin infants: Risk factors and consequences

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 419-424

  Fraser, Drora ^a,b   Bilenko, Natalya ^a,b   Deckelbaum, Richard J ^b,d   Dagan, Ron ^c   El On, Joseph ^a   Naggan, Lechaim ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition   (Israel)

^c Parasitology Laboratory   (Israel)

^d Ben Gurion University of the Negev ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ARABS; CARRIER STATE; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034043735     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313722     Document Type: Article

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