A comparison of urinary tract pathology and morbidity in adult populations from endemic and non-endemic zones for urinary schistosomiasis on Unguja Island, Zanzibar

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lyons, Beatrice ^a   Stothard, Russel ^b   Rollinson, David ^b   Khamis, Simba ^c   Simai, Khamis A ^d   Hunter, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Health Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

^d Mnazi Moja Hospital   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSURIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TANZANIA; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY URGENCY; GEOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; URINARY TRACT; URINE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 71949109897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-189     Document Type: Article

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