Effect of intestinal helminthiasis on nutritional status of schoolchildren

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 755-761

  Yamamoto, Ryoji ^a   Nagai, Nobuhiko ^b   Kawabata, Masato ^d   Ubas De Leon, Winifreda ^c   Ninomiya, Ruriko ^a   Koizumi, Naoko ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; FATTY ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; RETINOL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHILIPPINES; PREVALENCE; TRICHURIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ASCARIASIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FATTY ACIDS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PHILIPPINES; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; TRICHURIASIS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0034570699     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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