Socio-economic and behavioural factors affecting the prevalence of Ascaris infection in a low-country tea plantation in Sri Lanka

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 615-621

  Gunawardena, G S A ^a   Karunaweera, N D ^a   Ismail, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PLANTATION; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SRI LANKA; TEA; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SRI LANKA; TOILET FACILITIES; WATER SUPPLY;

ASCARIS; NEMATODA;

EID: 4544349437     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349804225021299     Document Type: Article

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