Pattern and predictors of soil-transmitted helminth reinfection among aboriginal schoolchildren in rural Peninsular Malaysia

Acta Tropica

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 200-204

  Hesham Al Mekhlafi, M ^a   Surin, Johari ^a   Atiya, A S ^a   Ariffin, W A ^a   Mohammed Mahdy, A K ^a   Che Abdullah, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal children; Malaysia; Predictors; Reinfection; Soil transmitted helminth

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TREATMENT; EDUCATION; PRIMARY EDUCATION; RURAL AREA; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; REINFECTION; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TABLET; TRICHURIASIS; WORKING MOTHER;

ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SOIL; STUDENTS; TRICHURIASIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; PAHANG; POS BETAU; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; VERMES;

EID: 47549084040     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.05.022     Document Type: Article

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