Malaria severity status in patients with soil-transmitted helminth infections

Acta Tropica

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-11

  Degarege, Abraham ^a   Animut, Abebe ^b   Legesse, Mengistu ^b   Erko, Berhanu ^b  

^a BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Co infection; Helminth; Malaria; Severe malaria; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG PRESCRIBING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INFECTIVITY; MALARIA; PARASITE CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHIOPIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIEMSA STAIN; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; TRICHURIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; ETHIOPIA; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ALABA; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM PARASITES; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 68249104458     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.05.019     Document Type: Article

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