Early helminth infections are inversely related to anemia, malnutrition, and malaria and are not associated with inflammation in 6- to 23-month-old Zanzibari children

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1062-1070

  Kung'u, Jacqueline K ^a   Goodman, David ^b   Haji, Hamad J ^c   Ramsan, Mahdi ^c   Wright, Victoria J ^d   Bickle, Quentin D ^d   Tielsch, James M ^b   Raynes, John G ^d   Stoltzfus, Rebecca J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Pemba Public Health Laboratory   (Tanzania)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MEBENDAZOLE; OROSOMUCOID;

ANEMIA; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; ANIMAL; HELMINTHIASIS; INFLAMMATION; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS; TRICHURIS; VERMES;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; INFLAMMATION; MALARIA; TANZANIA;

EID: 73949096412     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0091     Document Type: Article

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