Parasitism in Children Aged Three Years and Under: Relationship between Infection and Growth in Rural Coastal Kenya

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  LaBeaud, A Desiree ^a,b   Nayakwadi Singer, Monica ^b   McKibben, Maxim ^c   Mungai, Peter ^c   Muchiri, Eric M ^d   McKibben, Elisabeth ^c   Gildengorin, Ginny ^b   Sutherland, Laura J ^c   King, Charles H ^c   King, Christopher L ^c   Malhotra, Indu ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARASITISM; PARASITOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; ASCARIS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FILARIOIDEA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMA; STRONGYLOIDES; TRICHURIS;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; FILARIOIDEA; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMA; STRONGYLOIDES; TRICHURIS;

EID: 84930613949     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003721     Document Type: Article

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