Reduction Patterns of Acute Schistosomiasis in the People's Republic of China

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Li, Shi Zhu ^a,b   Zheng, Hao ^a,b   Abe, Eniola Michael ^c   Yang, Kun ^d   Bergquist, Robert ^e   Qian, Ying Jun ^a,b   Zhang, Li Juan ^a,b   Xu, Zhi Min ^a,b   Xu, Jing ^a,b   Guo, Jia Gang ^a,b   Xiao, Ning ^a,b   Zhou, Xiao Nong ^a,b  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY LAFIA   (Nigeria)

^d JIANGSU INSTITUTE OF PARASITIC DISEASES   (China)

^e Ingerod 407 ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EOSINOPHILIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; YOUNG ADULT; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; EPIDEMIC; INCIDENCE; INFANT; PREVALENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901810403     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002849     Document Type: Article

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