Determining soil-transmitted helminth infection status and physical fitness of school-aged children

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 66, 2012, Pages

  Yap, Peiling ^a,b   Fürst, Thomas ^a,b   Müller, Ivan ^a,b   Kriemler, Susi ^a,b   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b   Steinmann, Peter ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

20 meter shuttle run test; Baermann technique; Children; Immunology; Infection; Infectious diseases; Issue 66; Kato katz technique; Medicine; Physical fitness; Soil transmitted helminths

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NEMATODIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; SCHOOL; SOIL; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; STUDENT; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; FECES; HUMANS; MALE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; SCHOOLS; SOIL; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; STUDENTS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 84868281656     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3966     Document Type: Article

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