Wealth and its associations with enteric parasitic infections in a low-income community in Peru: Use of principal component analysis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-42

  Nundy, Shantanu ^a   Gilman, Robert H ^b   Xiao, Lihua ^c   Cabrera, Lilia ^d   Cama, Rosa ^d   Ortega, Ynes R ^e   Kahn, Geoffrey ^c   Cama, Vitaliano A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d University of Georgia ^*  (Peru)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYCLOSPORA; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIARDIA; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERU; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; AGE; CYCLOSPORIASIS; ECONOMICS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITOLOGY; POVERTY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYCLOSPORA; GIARDIA; MICROSPORIDIA;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CYCLOSPORIASIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PERU; POVERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79952260256     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0442     Document Type: Article

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