National intestinal helminth survey among schoolchildren in Tajikistan: Prevalences, risk factors and perceptions

Acta Tropica

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 93-98

  Sherkhonov, Tokhir ^a   Yap, Peiling ^b,c   Mammadov, Soltan ^d   Sayfuddin, Karimov ^a   Martinez, Placida ^d   Amoss, William P ^e   Wientzen, Raoul L ^e   Steinmann, Peter ^a,b  

^a Republican Tropical Diseases Centre   (Tajikistan)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d Rostropovich Vishnevskaya Foundation   (Azerbaijan)

^e Rostropovich Vishnevskaya Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Intestinal helminths; Mass drug administration; Risk factors; Tajikistan

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; HEMOGLOBIN; PRAZIQUANTEL;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; PARASITE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAND WASHING; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE INFECTION; KATO KATZ THICK SMEAR; KNOWLEDGE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SPRING; TAJIKISTAN; TAPE TEST; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

ADULT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FECES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SANITATION; TAJIKISTAN;

TAJIKISTAN;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALIA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; EQUUS ASINUS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 84875537534     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.01.013     Document Type: Article

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