Soil transmitted helminths and schistosoma mansoni infections among school children in zarima town, northwest Ethiopia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Alemu, Abebe ^a   Atnafu, Asmamaw ^a   Addis, Zelalem ^a   Shiferaw, Yitayal ^a   Teklu, Takele ^a   Mathewos, Biniam ^a   Birhan, Wubet ^a   Gebretsadik, Simon ^a   Gelaw, Baye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HELMINTH; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SHOE; SOIL MICROFLORA; SWIMMING; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAND WASHING; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOIL;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FECES; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; MALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOIL; TRICHURIS;

EID: 79960025051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-189     Document Type: Article

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