Height, zinc and soil-transmitted helminth infections in schoolchildren: A study in Cuba and Cambodia

Nutrients

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3000-3010

  de Gier, Brechje ^a   Mpabanzi, Liliane ^b   Vereecken, Kim ^b   van der Werff, Suzanne D ^a   D'Haese, Patrick C ^c   Fiorentino, Marion ^d   Khov, Kuong ^e   Perignon, Marlene ^d   Chamnan, Chhoun ^e   Berger, Jacques ^d   Parker, Megan E ^f   Díaz, Raquel Junco ^g   Núñez, Fidel Angel ^h   Rivero, Lázara Rojas ^h   Gorbea, Mariano Bonet ^g   Doak, Colleen M ^a   Ponce, Maiza Campos ^a   Wieringa, Frank T ^d   Polman, Katja ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e Fisheries Administration ^*  (Cambodia)

^f PATH   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE HIGIENE   (Cuba)

^h INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Child; Cuba; Growth; Height; Soil transmitted helminth infections; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MEBENDAZOLE; OROSOMUCOID; ZINC; SOIL;

ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CUBA; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRICHURIASIS; VEIN PUNCTURE; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEFICIENCY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HAIR; PARASITOLOGY; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; TRICHURIS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

ANIMALS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BODY HEIGHT; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CUBA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HAIR; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOIL; TRICHURIS; ZINC;

EID: 84929298321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu7043000     Document Type: Article

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