Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections and Correlated Risk Factors in Preschool and School-Aged Children in Rural Southwest China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Xiaobing ^a   Zhang, Linxiu ^a   Luo, Renfu ^a   Wang, Guofei ^b   Chen, Yingdan ^b   Medina, Alexis ^c   Eggleston, Karen ^c   Rozelle, Scott ^c   Smith, D Scott ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AGE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKED FOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING; SMEAR; SOIL MICROFLORA; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOIL; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; VERMES;

EID: 84866911137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045939     Document Type: Article

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