Soil-transmitted helminth prevalence and infection intensity among geographically and economically distinct shuar communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 598-607

  Cepon Robins, Tara J ^a   Liebert, Melissa A ^a   Gildner, Theresa E ^a   Urlacher, Samuel S ^a,b   Colehour, Alese M ^a   Snodgrass, J Josh ^a   Madimenos, Felicia C ^a,c   Sugiyama, Lawrence S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; JUVENILE; PARASITIC DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECUADOR; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PARASITE LOAD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMEAR; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTION; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; AGE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ECUADOR; MORONA-SANTIAGO;

VERMES;

SOIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECUADOR; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOIL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908269579     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/13-383.1     Document Type: Article

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