Intestinal parasites among young children in the interior of Guyana

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-27

  Lindo, J F ^a   Validum, L ^a   Ager, A L ^a   Campa, A ^a   Cuadrado, R R ^a   Cummings, R ^a   Palmer, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHER; FORMALDEHYDE;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEMOGRAPHY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GUYANA; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; SUPERINFECTION; TRICHURIS; UNIVERSITY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; GUYANA; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036262468     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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