Impact of water supply, domiciliary water reservoirs and sewage on faeco-orally transmitted parasitic diseases in children residing in poor areas in Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 694-698

  Teixeira, Juliotei C ^a   Heller, L ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FLUID INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCOME; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; SEWAGE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POVERTY AREAS; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33745563865     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805005443     Document Type: Article

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