Prevalence and risk factors related to intestinal parasites among children in Department of Rio San Juan, Nicaragua

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 774-782

  Munoz Antoli C ^a   Pavon A ^b   Marcilla, A ^a   Toledo, R ^a   Esteban, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE NICARAGUA   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Children; Intestinal parasites; Nicaragua; Prevalence; Rio san juan; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

RIVER WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CHILD; CHILOMASTIX; CHILOMASTIX MESNILLI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENDOLIMAX NANA; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ENTAMOEBA HARTMANNI; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; IODAMOEBA BUETSCHLII; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NICARAGUA; PARASITOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; WALKING; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FECES; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRICHURIS; WATER SUPPLY;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; PROTOZOA; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

ADOLESCENT; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; NICARAGUA; PARASITES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; TRICHURIS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84928940978     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/tru160     Document Type: Article

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