Seroepidemiology of Toxocara Canis infection among primary schoolchildren in the capital area of the Republic of the Marshall Islands

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fu, Chung Jung ^a,b   Chuang, Ting Wu ^c   Lin, Huei Shan ^b   Wu, Chih Hsiung ^b   Liu, Yung Ching ^b,d   Langinlur, Mailynn K ^e   Lu, Min Yun ^b   Hsiao, Wesley Wei Wen ^f   Fan, Chia Kwung ^c,g  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e Ministry of Health   (Taiwan)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^g TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Primary school children (PSC); Republic of the marshall islands (RMI); Toxocara canis (T. canis); Western blotting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LARVAL STAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARSHALL ISLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOXOCARIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; TOXOCARA CANIS;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHILD; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DOGS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MICRONESIA; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

EID: 84900842500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-261     Document Type: Article

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