High prevalence of persistent parasitic infections in foreign-born, HIV-infected persons in the United States

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hochberg, Natasha S ^a,b   Moro, Ruth N ^c   Sheth, Anandi N ^b   Montgomery, Susan P ^d   Steurer, Frank ^d   McAuliffe, Isabel T ^d   Wang, Yun F ^b,e   Armstrong, Wendy ^b   Rivera, Hilda N ^d   Lennox, Jeffrey L ^b   Franco Paredes, Carlos ^c,f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSURIA; EOSINOPHILIA; FATIGUE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMATURIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PERSISTENT INFECTION; POLYURIA; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEX RATIO; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; FECES; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FECES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITIC DISEASES; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955829740     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001034     Document Type: Article

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