Status of Soil Transmitted Helminthic Infections in India- Observations on Sample Surveys using Kato-Katz Technique

Journal of Communicable Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 110-115

  Bora, D ^a   Singh, S K ^a   Bhagat, H ^a   Sharma, R C ^a   Datta, K K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOIL; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; FECES; HUMANS; INDIA; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOIL; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 0035372586     PISSN: 00195138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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