The prevalence, intensities and risk factors associated with geohelminth infection in tea-growing communities of Assam, India

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 688-701

  Traub, Rebecca J ^a   Robertson, Ian D ^a   Irwin, Peter ^a   Mencke, Norbert ^b   Thompson, R C Andrew ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancylostoma; Ascaris; Geohelminth; Hookworms; India; Necator; Trichuris

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH EDUCATION; PARASITIC DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; TEA;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; DEFECATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRICHURIASIS; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANTHELMINTICS; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEA; TRICHURIASIS; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; ASSAM; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALIA; ASCARIS; NECATOR; NEMATODA; SUS SCROFA; TRICHURIS; VERMES;

EID: 3042551650     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2004.01252.x     Document Type: Article

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