Prevalence and risk factors of helminths and intestinal protozoa infections among children from primary schools in western Tajikistan

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Matthys, Barbara ^a,b   Bobieva, Mohion ^c   Karimova, Gulzira ^d   Mengliboeva, Zulfira ^d   Jean Richard, Vreni ^a,b,d   Hoimnazarova, Malika ^c   Kurbonova, Matluba ^c   Lohourignon, Laurent K ^e   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b   Wyss, Kaspar ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Republican Tropical Diseases Centre   (Tajikistan)

^d Project Sino   (Tajikistan)

^e UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DRINKING WATER; RAIN; WELL WATER;

AGE; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTEROBIASIS; FECES ANALYSIS; GIARDIASIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIASIS; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE INFECTION; MIXED INFECTION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POULTRY FARMING; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SHEEP FARMING; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIAL STATUS; TAJIKISTAN; TRICHURIASIS; WATER SUPPLY; ANIMAL; CHILD; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HELMINTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL; STATISTICS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ENTAMOEBA; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; PROTOZOA; VERMES;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; TAJIKISTAN;

EID: 80053583834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-195     Document Type: Article

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