Environmental and demographic risk factors associated with the prevalence of Cryptosporidium infection in the Alice rural settlements of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa: A pilot study

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-133

  Omoruyi, Beauty ^a   Matongo, Fredrick ^a   Nkwetshana, Noxolo T ^a   Green, Ezekiel ^a   Clarke, Anna M ^a   Ndip, Roland N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Antigenemia; Cryptosporidium; Diarrhea; HIV; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM;

EID: 79959723790     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVEH.2011.017     Document Type: Article

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