High Prevalence and Spatial Distribution of Strongyloides stercoralis in Rural Cambodia

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Khieu, Virak ^a,b,c   Schär, Fabian ^b,c   Forrer, Armelle ^b,c   Hattendorf, Jan ^b,c   Marti, Hanspeter ^b,c   Duong, Socheat ^a   Vounatsou, Penelope ^b,c   Muth, Sinuon ^a   Odermatt, Peter ^b,c  

^a Ministry of Health Cambodia   (Cambodia)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903478981     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002854     Document Type: Article

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