Soil-Transmitted helminth infections and associated risk factors in three orang asli tribes in peninsular Malaysia

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Anuar, Tengku Shahrul ^a   Salleh, Fatmah Md ^b   Moktar, Norhayati ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FECES; FEMALE; FRUIT; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRICHURIS; VEGETABLE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; FRUIT; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRICHURIS; VEGETABLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894047944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04101     Document Type: Article

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