Risk factors for human schistosomiasis in the Upper Benue valley, in northern Cameroon

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 469-477

  Ndassa, A ^a   Mimpfoundi, R ^a   Gake, B ^b   Martin, M V Paul ^c   Poste, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b Centre Pasteur de Garoua   (Cameroon)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LAUNDRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RIVER; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOCIAL STATUS; STREAM (RIVER); SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOL;

GASTROPODA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM;

EID: 34748867780     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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