A six-year follow-up of schoolchildren for urinary and intestinal schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Northern Tanzania

Acta Tropica

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-140

  Poggensee, Gabriele ^a   Krantz, Ingela ^b,c   Nordin, Per ^b   Mtweve, Sabina ^d   Ahlberg, Beth ^b   Mosha, Gloria ^d   Freudenthal, Solveig ^b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Skaraborgs Institutet   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Control; Schistosoma haematobium; Schistosoma mansoni; Schistosomiasis; Schoolchildren; Soil transmitted helminthiasis

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH EDUCATION; SANITATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SANITATION; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOIL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TANZANIA; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TANZANIA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; MWANGA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WORLD;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; VERMES;

EID: 12344314464     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2004.10.003     Document Type: Article

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