Geophagy (soil-eating) in relation to anemia and helminth infection among HIV-infected pregnant women in Tanzania

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-43

  Kawai, Kosuke ^a   Saathoff, Elmar ^b   Antelman, Gretchen ^a   Msamanga, Gernard ^c   Fawzi, Wafaie W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GEOPHAGIA; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PICA; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TANZANIA; TRICHURIS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 58149474384     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.80.36     Document Type: Article

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