Patterns and risk factors of helminthiasis and anemia in a rural and a peri-urban community in Zanzibar, in the context of helminth control programs

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Knopp, Stefanie ^a   Mohammed, Khalfan A ^b   Stothard, J Russell ^c   Khamis, I Simba ^b   Rollinson, David ^c   Marti, Hanspeter ^a   Utzinger, Jürg ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Ministry of Health Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; PARASITE CONTROL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RAW FOOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TANZANIA; TRICHURIS; URBAN POPULATION; URINALYSIS; AGED; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; FECES; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; URINE;

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; HELMINTH ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TANZANIA; TRICHURIS; URINE;

EID: 77955295457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000681     Document Type: Article

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