Predictors and nutritional consequences of intestinal parasitic infections in rural Ecuadorian children

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-23

  Sackey, Mamie Eleanor ^a   Weigel, M Margaret ^a   Armijos, Rodrigo X ^b,c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c Dept de Microbiologia   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECUADOR; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; GROWTH RETARDATION; HELMINTH; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE PARASITE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITOSIS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOON; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECUADOR; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION;

EID: 0037330579     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/49.1.17     Document Type: Article

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