Relationship between intestinal parasitic infection in children and soil contamination in an urban slum

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-45

  Korkes, Fernando ^a,b   Kumagai, Fabiane U ^a   Belfort, Rubens N ^a   Szejnfeld, Denis ^a   Abud, Thiago G ^a   Kleinman, Ana ^a   Florez, Gabriela M ^a   Szejnfeld, Tania ^a   Chieffi, Pedro P ^a  

^a Medical School of Santa Casa of Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ancylostoma; Ascaris; Brazil; Child; Parasitology; Protozoa; Soil; Soil transmitted helminth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; ENDOLIMAX; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SOIL POLLUTION; TRICHURIS; URBAN AREA; WORM EGG; ANIMAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FECES; HEALTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEMATODE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTOZOON; RISK FACTOR; SOIL;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SOIL; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 60749116023     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmn038     Document Type: Article

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