High prevalence of Ancylostoma ceylanicum hookworm infections in humans, Cambodia, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 976-982

  Inpankaew, Tawin ^a,b   Schär, Fabian ^c,d   Dalsgaard, Anders ^a   Khieu, Virak ^c,d,e   Chimnoi, Wissanuwat ^b   Chhoun, Chamnan ^f   Sok, Daream ^f   Marti, Hanspeter ^c,d   Muth, Sinuon ^e   Odermatt, Peter ^c,d   Traub, Rebecca J ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e National Center for Parasitology Entomology and Malaria Control   (Cambodia)

^f Fisheries Administration   (Cambodia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; MEBENDAZOLE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANCYLOSTOMA CEYLANICUM; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE 1 GENE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FEMALE; GENE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMAL; CAMBODIA; CLASSIFICATION; DOG DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANIMALS; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84899758982     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2006.131770     Document Type: Article

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