Global health impact of soil-transmitted nematodes

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 663-664

  Cappello, Michael ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCYLOSTOMA CEYLANICUM; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANEMIA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALNUTRITION; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NEMATODIASIS; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOIL; TRICHURIS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; FECES; HUMANS; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SOIL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 3142748203     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000132228.00778.e4     Document Type: Short Survey

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