Current status of soil transmitted helminths and Schistosoma mansoni infection among children in two primary schools in North Gondar, Northwest Ethiopia: A cross sectional study

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mathewos, Biniam ^a   Alemu, Abebe ^a   Woldeyohannes, Desalegn ^b   Alemu, Agersew ^a   Addis, Zelalem ^a   Tiruneh, Moges ^a   Aimero, Mulugeta ^a   Kassu, Afework ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Schistosoma mansoni; School children; Soil transmitted helminths

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOIL; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84893666548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-88     Document Type: Article

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