Parasites that cause problems in Malaysia: Soil-transmitted helminths and malaria parasites

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 597-600

  Singh, Balbir ^a   Cox Singh, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUTUROLOGY; HELMINTH; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; TRICHURIS;

HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALAYSIA; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOIL;

ASCARIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOA; TRICHURIS; VERMES;

EID: 0035698006     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(01)02148-1     Document Type: Review

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