The nutritional impacts of soil-transmitted helminths infections among Orang Asli schoolchildren in rural Malaysia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Malaysia; Malnutrition; Orang Asli; Soil transmitted helminths

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SCREENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASIS; STUNTING; TRICHURIASIS; WORM EXPULSION;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOIL;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; VERMES;

EID: 84862175867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-119     Document Type: Article

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