Giardia intestinalis and nutritional status in children participating in the complementary nutrition program, Antioquia, Colombia, May to October 2006

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 155-162

  Botero Garcés, Jorge H ^a,b,e   García Montoya, Gisela M ^a,b,e   Grisales Patiño, Dayvin ^b,e   Aguirre Acevedo, Daniel C ^d,e   Álvarez Uribe, Martha C ^c,e  

^a Facultad de Medicina   (Colombia)

^b Grupo Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Las Parasitosis Intestinales   (Mexico)

^c Grupo de Investigación en Alimentación Y Nutrición Humana   (Colombia)

^d Grupo de Investigación de Neurociencias   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Children; Colombia; Giardia; Giardiasis; Iron deficiency anemia; Nutritional status; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COLOMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; STUNTING SYNDROME; UNDERWEIGHT;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOMBIA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67650081006     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652009000300006     Document Type: Article

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