Intestinal Parasites in Children from a Day Care Centre in Matanzas City, Cuba

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Cañete, Roberto ^a,c   Díaz, Mariuska Morales ^b   Avalos García, Roxana ^b   Laúd Martinez, Pedro Miguel ^b   Manuel Ponce, Félix ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE HIGIENE   (Cuba)

^b Faustino Pérez Hernández Hospital   (Cuba)

^c INSTITUTO DE GASTROENTEROLOGÍA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; ETHER; FORMALDEHYDE;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CUBA; DAY CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIRECT WET MOUNT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOLIMAX NANA; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTESTINE PARASITE; KATO KATZ TECHNIQUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TAENIA; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; WATER SUPPLY;

BLASTOCYSTIS; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CUBA; FECES; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

BLASTOCYSTIS SP.; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84870917283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051394     Document Type: Article

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