Spatial clustering of porcine cysticercosis in Mbulu district, northern Tanzania

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ngowi, Helena A ^a   Kassuku, Ayub A ^a   Carabin, Hélène ^b   Mlangwa, James E D ^a   Mlozi, Malongo R S ^a   Mbilinyi, Boniface P ^a   Willingham, Arve L ^c  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PORCINE CYSTICERCOSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK REDUCTION; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; FAMILY SIZE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TAENIA SOLIUM; TONGUE; ZOONOSIS;

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREVALENCE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TAENIA SOLIUM; TANZANIA; TONGUE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77952400811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000652     Document Type: Article

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