Prevalence, behavioural and social factors associated with Schistosoma intercalatum and geohelminth infections in São Tomé and Principe

Parassitologia

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 227-231

  Belo, Silvana ^a   Rompao H ^b   Goncalves L ^a   Gracio M A A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^b Centro Nacional de Endemias   (Sao Tome and Principe)

Author keywords

Behavioural social factors; Helminthiasis; Schoolchildren

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES; FEMALE; HABIT; HOUSING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRICHURIASIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE VECTORS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FECES; FEMALE; HABITS; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAILS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRICHURIASIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMIDAE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA INTERCALATUM; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 31944438341     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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