Mono-parasite infection versus co-infections in Tanzania: The need to revise our research focus

Tanzania Journal of Health Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mazigo, Humphrey D ^a   Ambrose Mazigo, Emmanuela E ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED NET; CLIMATE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HELMINTHIASIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LETTER; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIXED INFECTION; MORBIDITY; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SOCIAL STATUS; SPLENOMEGALY; TANZANIA; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; COINFECTION; PARASITIC DISEASES;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COINFECTION; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; TANZANIA;

EID: 84856329951     PISSN: 18216404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/thrb.v14i1.1     Document Type: Letter

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