The Impact of Asymptomatic Helminth Co-Infection in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Tuberculosis in North-West Ethiopia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Abate, Ebba ^a,b   Belayneh, Meseret ^c   Gelaw, Aschalew ^a   Idh, Jonna ^b   Getachew, Assefa ^a   Alemu, Shitaye ^a   Diro, Ermias ^a   Fikre, Nigussu ^c   Britton, Sven ^d   Elias, Daniel ^e   Aseffa, Abraham ^f   Stendahl, Olle ^b   Schön, Thomas ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^g KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; ETHIOPIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PREVALENCE; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; WORM INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; COINFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMORBIDITY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; VERMES;

EID: 84865576650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042901     Document Type: Article

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