Malaria, schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminth burden and their correlation with anemia in children attending primary schools in kinshasa, democratic republic of congo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Matangila, Junior R ^a,b   Doua, Joachim Yorokpa ^b   Linsuke, Sylvie ^c   Madinga, Joule ^d   Inocêncio Da Luz, Raquel ^b   Van Geertruyden, Jean Pierre ^b   Lutumba, Pascal ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Congo)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; SOIL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CONGO; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FEVER; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIXED INFECTION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; UNDERWEIGHT; ADOLESCENT; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL; SOIL; STUDENT; TRANSMISSION;

VERMES;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; CONGO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHOOLS; SOIL; STUDENTS;

EID: 84910121270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110789     Document Type: Article

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