Prevalence of intestinal parasitoses in children at the Xingu Indian reservation

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 493-496

  Escobar Pardo, Mario Luis ^a   De Godoy, Anita Paula Ortiz ^a   Machado, Rodrigo Strehl ^a   Rodrigues, Douglas ^a   Neto, Ulysses Fagundes ^a   Kawakami, Elisabete ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ancylostoma; Epidemiology; Giardia; Prevalence; Schistossoma

Indexed keywords

ANCYLOSTOMA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTAMOEBA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA; HUMAN; INDIA; INTESTINE PARASITE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOON; SCHISTOSOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE;

EID: 78650110464     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.2036     Document Type: Article

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