Multiparasitism. A Neglected Reality on Global, Regional and Local Scale

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 73, Issue C, 2010, Pages 21-50

  Steinmann, Peter ^a,b,c   Utzinger, Jürg ^b,c   Du, Zun Wei ^d   Zhou, Xiao Nong ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d Yunnan Institute of Parasitic Diseases   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BOOK; CHINA; ECHINOCOCCUS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INTESTINE PARASITE; LEISHMANIA; NECATOR AMERICANUS; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITISM; PEDICULUS; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCHISTOSOMA; STRONGYLOIDES; TAENIA; TRICHINELLA; TRICHURIS; TRYPANOSOMA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FAR EAST; HUMAN; PARASITIC DISEASES; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAR EAST; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 77954572990     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(10)73002-5     Document Type: Chapter

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