Intestinal parasites in immigrants in the city of Naples (southern Italy)

Acta Tropica

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 196-201

  Gualdieri, L ^a   Rinaldi, L ^b   Petrullo, L ^c   Morgoglione, M E ^b   Maurelli, M P ^b   Musella, V ^d   Piemonte, M ^c   Caravano, L ^c   Coppola, M G ^c   Cringoli, G ^b  

^a Ascalesi Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c AO Dei Colli Hospital for Infectious Diseases D Cotugno   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

FLOTAC; Helminths; Immigrants; Italy; Naples; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER;

DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH IMPACT; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; PARASITE; PATHOGENICITY; PROTOZOAN; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DICROCOELIUM; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FECES ANALYSIS; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GOLD STANDARD; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; IMMIGRANT; INTESTINE PARASITE; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TAENIA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHURIS;

ACETATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRICHURIS; YOUNG ADULT;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY; NAPLES; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA];

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM; ENTAMOEBA; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; PROTOZOA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TAENIA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 79851510618     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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