Intestinal protozoan and helminth infections in the Municipality San Juan y Martínez, Pinar del Río, Cuba

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 236-238

  Escobedo, A A ^a   Cañete, Roberto ^b   Nunez F A ^c  

^a Paediatric Academic Hospital Pedro Borraás   (Cuba)

^b Provincial Centre of Hygiene Epidemiology and Microbiology   (Cuba)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CUBA; DAY CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; SCHOOL; SOIL; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDUCATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HELMINTHIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SOIL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUBA; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; SCHOOLS; SOIL;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA; VERMES;

EID: 38449096493     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/004947507782332991     Document Type: Article

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