Malaria and related outcomes in patients with intestinal helminths: A cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Degarege, Abraham ^a   Legesse, Mengistu ^a   Medhin, Girmay ^a   Animut, Abebe ^a   Erko, Berhanu ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Association; Co infections; Ethiopia; Intestinal helminths; Non severe malaria; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHIOPIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GIEMSA STAIN; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; KATO KATZ TECHNIQUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TRICHURIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868587832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-291     Document Type: Article

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