Soil-transmitted helminth and other intestinal parasitic infections among school children in indigenous people communities in Davao del Norte, Philippines

Acta Tropica

Volumn 120, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Belizario, Vicente Y ^a   Totañes, Francis Isidore G ^a   de Leon, Winifreda U ^a   Lumampao, Yvonne F ^b   Ciro, Raezelle Nadine T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Helminthiasis; Indigenous people; Intestinal helminth infections; Neglected tropical disease; Soil transmitted helminth infections

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HEMOGLOBIN; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE; PARASITIC DISEASE;

AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHINOSTOMA; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHILIPPINES; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SOIL MICROFLORA; TREMATODE; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHILIPPINES; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SOIL; STUDENTS;

DAVAO; DAVAO DEL NORTE; PHILIPPINES;

VERMES;

EID: 80054038356     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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