Anaemia in a school of rural Cambodia: Detection, prevalence, and links with intestinal worms and malnutrition;Anémie dans une école du Cambodge rural: Détection, prévalence et liens avec les parasitoses intestinales et la malnutrition

Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 115-118

  Khieu, V ^a   Odermatt, P ^a   Mel, Y ^b   Keluangkhot, V ^a   Strobel, M ^a  

^a Institut de la Francophonie Pour la Médecine Tropicale IFMT   (Laos)

^b Direction de la Santé Provinciale de Battambang ^*  (Cambodia)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Cambodia; Haemoglobin color scale; Intestinal parasites; School health; South East Asia

Indexed keywords

ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; MEBENDAZOLE;

ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; METHODOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANEMIA; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; CAMBODIA; CHILD; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINOMETRY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEBENDAZOLE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745247347     PISSN: 00379085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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