Anaemia and associated risk factors among pregnant women in Gilgel Gibe dam area, Southwest Ethiopia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Getachew, Million ^a   Yewhalaw, Delenesaw ^b   Tafess, Ketema ^a   Getachew, Yehenew ^b   Zeynudin, Ahmed ^b  

^a Adama University   (Ethiopia)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Co infection; Ethiopia; Malaria; Pregnant women; Soil Transmitted Helminths

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; BED NET; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITOSIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTION; TRICHURIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PARASITIC DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 84871022724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-296     Document Type: Article

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