The Patterns of Tungiasis in Araruama Township, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-36

  De Carvalho, Raimundo Wilson ^a   De Almeida, Adilson Benedito ^a   Barbosa Silva, Silvia Cristina ^a   Amorim, Marinete ^a   Ribeiro, Paulo César ^b   Serra Freire, Nicolau Maués ^c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Inst de Biologia do Exército   (Brazil)

^c CNPq   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Epidemiology; Host preferences; Prevalence; Rio de Janeiro; Siphonaptera; Tunga penetrans; Tungiasis

Indexed keywords

TETANUS TOXOID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECTOPARASITE; FEMALE; GENDER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFESTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SAND FLEA; SEWAGE; SHOE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; TUNGIASIS; URBAN AREA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CAT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; FLEA; HORSE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); TUNGA; TUNGA PENETRANS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CATS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHICKENS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOGS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; HORSES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWINE;

EID: 0038621582     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762003000100005     Document Type: Article

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