Concurrent infections and socioeconomic determinants of geohelminth infection: a community study of schoolchildren in periurban Guinea-Bissau

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 839-845

  Steenhard, Nina R ^a   Ørnbjerg, Niels ^a   Mølbak, Kåre ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c Projecto de Saúde Bandim ^*  (Guinea-Bissau)

Author keywords

Confounding factors; Enteropathogenic bacteria; Guinea Bissau; Helminths; Protozoa; Schoolchildren

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; GENDER; GUINEA-BISSAU; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN ROTAVIRUS; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOSLEM; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

ENTAMOEBA; PROTOZOA; ROTAVIRUS; VERMES;

EID: 67650093106     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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