Co-infections of Malaria and Geohelminthiasis in Two Rural Communities of Nkassomo and Vian in the Mfou Health District, Cameroon

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Zeukeng, Francis ^a   Tchinda, Viviane Hélène Matong ^b   Bigoga, Jude Daiga ^a   Seumen, Clovis Hugues Tiogang ^a   Ndzi, Edward Shafe ^b   Abonweh, Géraldine ^b   Makoge, Valérie ^b   Motsebo, Amédée ^b   Moyou, Roger Somo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plant Studies Yaounde   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CAMEROON; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; ASCARIASIS; COINFECTION; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920545857     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003236     Document Type: Article

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