Malaria and helminth co-infections in school and preschool children: A cross-sectional study in Magu district, North-Western Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kinung'hi, Safari M ^a   Magnussen, Pascal ^b   Kaatano, Godfrey M ^a   Kishamawe, Coleman ^a   Vennervald, Birgitte J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; KATO KATZ TECHNIQUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTION; TANZANIA; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; TANZANIA;

EID: 84900426844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086510     Document Type: Article

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