Ascaris, people and pigs in a rural community of Jiangxi Province, China

Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 545-557

  Peng, Weidong ^a   Zhou, Xianmin ^a   Cui, Xiaomin ^a   Crompton, D W T ^b   Whitehead, R R ^b   Xiong, Jiangqin ^c   Wu, Haigeng ^c   Peng, Jiyuan ^d   Yang, Yang ^c   Wu, Weixing ^c   Xu, Kaiwu ^c   Yan, Yongxing ^c  

^a JIANGXI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Nanchang Hosp Combination T   (China)

^d Department of Mathematics   (China)

Author keywords

Ascaris lumbricoides; Ascaris suum; China; pig; soil

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASCARIS SUUM; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SWINE;

ASCARIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASCARIS SUUM; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 10544227748     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000067597     Document Type: Article

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