Soil-transmitted helminth infection, skin infection, anaemia, and growth retardation in schoolchildren of Taveuni Island, Fiji

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1216, 2005, Pages

  Thomas, Mark ^a   Woodfield, Graeme ^a   Moses, Christine ^b   Amos, Geoffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Diagnostic Medlab   (New Zealand)

^c Rotary Club of Taveuni ^*  (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIJI; GROWTH RETARDATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; IMPETIGO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SCABIES; SKIN INFECTION; SOIL MICROFLORA; TRICHURIASIS; UNDERWEIGHT; ANIMAL; ASCARIS; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; FECES; GROWTH DISORDER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; NEW ZEALAND; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; STUDENT; TRICHURIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FECES; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEMOGLOBINS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMPETIGO; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; SCABIES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; STUDENTS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 27244444315     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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