Nutritional impact of intestinal helminthiasis during the human life cycle

Annual Review of Nutrition

Volumn 22, Issue , 2002, Pages 35-59

  Crompton, D W T ^a   Nesheim, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anemia; Ascariasis; Hookworm disease; Trichuriasis

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ASCARIASIS; CHILD GROWTH; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIGESTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GROWTH RATE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; JOB PERFORMANCE; LIFE CYCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALABSORPTION; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOIL;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; NEMATODA; TRICHURIS;

EID: 0036399683     PISSN: 01999885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nutr.22.120501.134539     Document Type: Review

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