Trickle or clumped infection process? An analysis of aggregation in the weights of the parasitic roundworm of humans, Ascaris lumbricoides

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1373-1380

  Walker, Martin ^a   Hall, Andrew ^b   Basáñez, María Gloria ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ascaris lumbricoides; Clumped infection; Extra binomial variation; Gini coefficient; Intraclass correlation coefficient; Lorenz curve; Weight distribution

Indexed keywords

PYRANTEL EMBONATE;

BODY SIZE; EGG PRODUCTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORM EGG;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; NEMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 84755160665     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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