Helminth and intestinal protozoa infections, multiparasitism and risk factors in Champasack Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Sayasone, Somphou ^a,b,c   Mak, Tippi K ^b,c   Vanmany, Monely ^a   Rasphone, Oroth ^d   Vounatsou, Penelope ^b,c   Utzinger, Jürg ^b,c   Akkhavong, Kongsap ^a   Odermatt, Peter ^b,c  

^a Ministry of Health   (Laos)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d MAHOSOT HOSPITAL   (Laos)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; FORMALDEHYDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CESTODIASIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM; ECHINOSTOMA; ENDOLIMAX NANA; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; INFANT; INTESTINE INFECTION; LAOS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NEMATODIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MEKONGI; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TAENIA; TREMATODIASIS; TRICHURIS; ANIMAL; COMORBIDITY; FECES; HELMINTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LAOS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955850842     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001037     Document Type: Article

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