Soil-transmitted helminthiasis: A critical but neglected factor influencing school participation of Aboriginal children in rural Malaysia

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 802-808

  Ahmed, Abdulhamid ^a   Al Mekhlafi, Hesham M ^a,b   Azam, Mohammad Nurul ^a   Ithoi, Init ^a   Al Adhroey, Abdulelah H ^a   Abdulsalam, Awatif M ^a   Surin, Johari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Aborigines; absenteeism; schoolchildren; soil transmitted helminthiasis

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION; TRICHURIASIS;

ABSENTEEISM; ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALAYSIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RECURRENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SOIL; STUDENTS; TRICHURIASIS;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 84861082302     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118201100237X     Document Type: Article

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