Using the prevalence of individual species of intestinal nematode worms to estimate the combined prevalence of any species

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  de Silva, Nilanthi ^a   Hall, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; HOOKWORM INFECTION; MALAWI; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; WORM INFECTION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HELMINTH; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 77952413606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000655     Document Type: Article

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