The contribution of water contact behavior to the high Schistosoma mansoni Infection rates observed in the Senegal River Basin

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sow, Seydou ^a,b,c   de Vlas, Sake J ^b   Stelma, Foekje ^d   Vereecken, Kim ^a   Gryseels, Bruno ^a   Polman, Katja ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles   (Senegal)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BATH; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MALE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION EXPOSURE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RIVER BASIN; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENEGAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WATER CONTACT BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; RIVER; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RATS; RIVERS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SENEGAL;

EID: 79960558670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-198     Document Type: Article

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