Impact of polyparasitic infections on anemia and undernutrition among Kenyan children living in a schistosoma haematobium-endemic area

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 433-440

  Bustinduy, Amaya L ^a   Parraga, Isabel M ^b   Thomas, Charles L ^c   Mungai, Peter L ^d   Mutuku, Francis ^e   Muchiri, Eric M ^f   Kitron, Uriel ^e   King, Charles H ^d  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIXED INFECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; URINALYSIS; WASTING SYNDROME; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ANIMAL; HOOKWORM INFECTION; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876696642     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0552     Document Type: Article

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