Hymenolepis nana: A common cause of paediatric diarrhoea in urban slum dwellers in India

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 331-334

  Mirdha, Bijay Ranjan ^a   Samantray, Jyotish Chandra ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CESTODIASIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; INDIA; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYMENOLEPIASIS; HYMENOLEPIS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036919105     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/48.6.331     Document Type: Article

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