Human infections with dicrocoelium dendriticum in kyrgyzstan: The tip of the Iceberg?

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1170-1172

  Jeandron, Aurelie ^a,b,c   Rinaldi, Laura ^d   Abdyldaieva, Gulnara ^e   Usubalieva, Jumagul ^e   Steinmann, Peter ^a,b   Cringoli, Giuseppe ^d   Utzinger, Jrg ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e Republican Sanitary and Epidemiological Services ^*  (Kyrgyzstan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANT; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EGG; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLATWORM; HEALTH RISK; HYGIENE; INFECTIVITY; INGESTION RATE; PARASITIC DISEASE; PERIURBAN AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DICROCOELIASIS; DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KYRGYZSTAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOINFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TREMATODE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DICROCOELIASIS; DICROCOELIUM; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KYRGYZSTAN; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RUMINANTS; ZOONOSES;

KYRGYZSTAN;

ANIMALIA; DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 84855371136     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2828.1     Document Type: Article

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