Complex interactions between soil-transmitted helminths and malaria in pregnant women on the thai-burmese border

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Boel, Machteld ^a,b,c   Carrara, Verena I ^a   Rijken, Marcus ^a,b,c   Proux, Stephane ^a   Nacher, Mathieu ^a,d   Pimanpanarak, Mupawjay ^a   Paw, Moo Koo ^a   Moo, Oh ^a   Gay, Hser ^a   Bailey, Wendi ^e   Singhasivanon, Pratap ^f   White, Nicholas J ^f,g   Nosten, François ^a,f,g   Mcgready, Rose ^a,f,g  

^a SHOKLO MALARIA RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d Centre d'Investigation Clinique Epidemiologie Clinique Antilles Guyane CIC EC CIE 802   (French Guiana)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD SMEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMATOCRIT; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MYANMAR; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; SOIL MICROFLORA; THAILAND; TRICHURIS; ANIMAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FECES; HEALTH; HELMINTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MYANMAR; PLASMODIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOIL; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649782186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000887     Document Type: Article

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