Alcoholism and Strongyloides stercoralis: Daily ethanol ingestion has a positive correlation with the frequency of Strongyloides larvae in the stools

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Marques, Carla Couzi ^a   Zago Gomes, Maria da Penha ^a   Gonçalves, Carlos Sandoval ^a   Pereira, Fausto Edmundo Lima ^b  

^a Serviço de Gastroenterologia do Hospital Universitário C A Moraes   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LARVAL STAGE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TAENIA; TRICHURIS; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE;

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHANOL; FECES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LARVA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 77956992643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000717     Document Type: Article

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