Epidemiology of Strongyloides stercoralis on Mekong islands in southern Laos

Acta Tropica

Volumn 141, Issue Part B, 2015, Pages 289-294

  Vonghachack, Youthanavanh ^a,b,c   Sayasone, Somphou ^d   Bouakhasith, Dalouny ^a   Taisayavong, Keoka ^d   Akkavong, Kongsap ^d   Odermatt, Peter ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Laos)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d Ministry of Health   (Laos)

Author keywords

Baermann technique; Epidemiology; Laos; Mekong island; Strongyloides stercoralis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PARASITIC DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LAOS; LARVA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIASIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MEKONGI; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAENIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; URTICARIA; VERY ELDERLY; ANIMAL; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; COINFECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FECES; HEALTH SERVICE; HELMINTH; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MIDDLE AGED; OPISTHORCHIS; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RIVER; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRICHURIS; YOUNG ADULT;

LAOS; MEKONG VALLEY;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; SCHISTOSOMA MEKONGI; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TAENIA; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FECES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ISLANDS; LAOS; LARVA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RIVERS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEX FACTORS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84916918757     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.09.016     Document Type: Article

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