Giardiasis and other intestinal parasitic infections in relation to anthropometric indicators of malnutrition: A large, population-based survey of schoolchildren in Tehran

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 209-214

  Nematian, J ^a   Gholamrezanezhad, A ^a,b   Nematian, E ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; LUGOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; GROWTH DISORDER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; WASTING SYNDROME;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTEROBIASIS; FEMALE; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; IRAN; MALE; PREVALENCE;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HYMENOLEPIS NANA;

EID: 44449100598     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485908X267876     Document Type: Article

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