Symptomatic and asymptomatic Cryptosporidium infections in children in a semi-urban slum community in southern India

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1110-1115

  Ajjampur, Sitara S R ^a   Sarkar, Rajiv ^a   Sankaran, Premi ^a   Kannan, Arun ^a   Menon, Vipin K ^a   Muliyil, Jayaprakash ^a   Ward, Honorine ^b   Kang, Gagandeep ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUBOWITZ SCORE; FECES ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PATIENT SELECTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES; SUBURBAN AREA; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FEMALE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; POVERTY; URBAN POPULATION;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS;

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POVERTY AREAS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79952047812     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0644     Document Type: Article

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