Cross-sectional relationship between HIV, lymphatic filariasis and other parasitic infections in adults in coastal northeastern Tanzania

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 543-550

  Nielsen, N O ^a   Simonsen, P E ^a   Magnussen, P ^a   Magesa, S ^b   Friis, H ^c  

^a DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anaemia; HIV; Intestinal helminths; Lymphatic filariasis; Malaria; Tanzania; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INTESTINE FLORA; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEASHORE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TANZANIA; TRICHURIS; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA; TRICHURIS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 33645848453     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.08.016     Document Type: Article

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