Distribution and Risk Factors for Plasmodium and Helminth Co-infections: A Cross-Sectional Survey among Children in Bagamoyo District, Coastal Region of Tanzania

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Salim, Nahya ^a,b,c,d   Knopp, Stefanie ^c,d,e   Lweno, Omar ^a   Abdul, Ummi ^a   Mohamed, Ali ^a   Schindler, Tobias ^a,c,d   Rothen, Julian ^a,c,d   Masimba, John ^a   Kwaba, Denis ^a   Mohammed, Alisa S ^a   Althaus, Fabrice ^c   Abdulla, Salim ^a   Tanner, Marcel ^c,d   Daubenberger, Claudia ^c,d   Genton, Blaise ^c,d,f  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; MEBENDAZOLE; SOIL;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TANZANIA; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; URINALYSIS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COINFECTION; FECES; HELMINTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOIL; URINE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOIL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TANZANIA; URINE;

EID: 84928905650     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003660     Document Type: Article

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