Parasitic diseases of remote Indigenous communities in Australia

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1119-1126

  Holt, Deborah C ^a   McCarthy, James S ^b,c   Carapetis, Jonathan R ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Indigenous; Parasite; Parasitic disease

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; BENZYL BENZOATE; CROTAMITON; DRINKING WATER; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; METRONIDAZOLE; NITAZOXANIDE; PERMETHRIN; PRAZIQUANTEL; PYRANTEL; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; SURFACE WATER; TEA TREE OIL; TINIDAZOLE;

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITIC DISEASE;

ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; AUSTRALIA; BANCROFTIAN FILARIASIS; BRUGIAN FILARIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GIARDIASIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIASIS; HYPERKERATOSIS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INTESTINE PARASITE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SCABIES; SECONDARY INFECTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN IRRITATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORM EXPULSION; ZOONOSIS;

AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PARASITIC DISEASES;

AUSTRALIA;

ACARI; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A'; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 77954028818     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2010.04.002     Document Type: Review

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