Cryptosporidium sp infections and other intestinal parasites in food handlers from Zulia state, Venezuela;Infección por Cryptosporidium sp y otros parásitos intestinales en manipuladores de alimentos del estado Zulia, Venezuela

Investigacion Clinica

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-21

  Freites Martínez, Azael David ^a   Colmenares, Deisy ^b   Pérez, Marlyn ^b   García, María ^a   De Suárez, Odelis Díaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

^b Department of Pathological Anatomy   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium sp; Food handlers; Intestinal parasites; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENDOLIMAX; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITISM; PREVALENCE; STAINING; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS; VENEZUELA; AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL; ASCARIASIS; COMORBIDITY; FECES; GIARDIASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; COMORBIDITY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; ENDOLIMAX; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; GIARDIASIS; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; VENEZUELA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649112111     PISSN: 05355133     EISSN: 05355133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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