The relationship between anthropometric indicators of nutritional status and malaria infection among youths in Khammouane Province, Lao PDR

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 262-267

  Takakura, Minoru ^a   Uza, Miyoko ^b   Sasaki, Yachiyo ^b   Nagahama, Naoki ^b   Phommpida, Samlane ^b   Bounyadeth, Somboun ^b   Kobayashi, Jun ^b   Toma, Takako ^b   Miyagi, Ichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAOS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; WASTING SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAOS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 0035376126     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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