The epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Egypt: Patterns of Schistosoma mansoni infection and morbidity in Kafr El-Sheikh

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 62, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2000, Pages 21-27

  Barakat, Rashida ^a   Farghaly, Azza ^a   El Masry, A G ^a   El Sayed, Medhat K ^b   Hussein, Mohamed H ^c  

^a High Institute of Public Health Egypt   (Egypt)

^b Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EGYPT; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROBABILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SAMPLING; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 0034062575     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2000.62.21     Document Type: Article

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