Prevalence of intestinal parasites and associated risk factors among schoolchildren in Srinagar City, Kashmir, India

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1541-1543

  Wani, Showkat Ahmad ^a   Ahmad, Fayaz ^a   Zargar, Showkat A ^b   Ahmad, Zubair ^a   Ahmad, Pervaiz ^a   Tak, Hidayatullah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR   (India)

^b SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC SULFATE;

CHILD; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HEALTH RISK; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITIC DISEASE; RISK FACTOR;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEFECATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INDIA; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TAENIA SAGINATA; TAENIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MOTHERS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SANITATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAENIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; URBAN POPULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; SOUTH ASIA; SRINAGAR [JAMMU AND KASHMIR];

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; TAENIA SAGINATA; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

EID: 38849108196     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1255.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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