Current status of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Beyla and Macenta Prefectures, Forest Guinea

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 672-674

  Hodges, Mary ^a   Koroma, Manso M ^b   Baldé, Mamadou S ^c   Turay, Hamid ^a   Fofanah, Ibrahim ^a   Divall, Mark J ^d   Winkler, Mirko S ^e,f   Zhang, Yaobi ^a  

^a HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Northern Polytechnic   (Sierra Leone)

^c Programme National de Lutte contre l'Onchocercose et la Cécité   (Guinea)

^d NewFields South Africa LLC   (South Africa)

^e SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Guinea; Schistosomiasis; Soil transmitted helminthiasis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GUINEA; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; SOIL; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; GUINEA; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOIL;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 80054081606     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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