Uptake of Preventive Treatment for Intestinal Schistosomiasis among School Children in Jinja District, Uganda: A Cross Sectional Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Muhumuza, Simon ^a   Olsen, Annette ^b   Katahoire, Anne ^a   Nuwaha, Fred ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG USE; FEAR; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEACHER; UGANDA; VOMITING;

ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PRAZIQUANTEL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOLS; SELF REPORT; UGANDA;

EID: 84877108220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063438     Document Type: Article

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