The Epidemiology of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Bihar State, India

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Greenland, Katie ^a   Dixon, Ruth ^b,c   Khan, Shabbir Ali ^d   Gunawardena, Kithsiri ^a,e   Kihara, Jimmy H ^f   Smith, Jennifer L ^a   Drake, Lesley ^b,c   Makkar, Prerna ^b,c   Raman, Sri ^c   Singh, Sarman ^g   Kumar, Sanjay ^h  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Deworm the World ^*  (United States)

^d PATNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^f KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^g ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^h Secretary Health cum Executive Director State Health Society   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEFECATION; DEWORMING; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH LITERACY; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; RISK FACTOR; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH; TRICHURIASIS; WORM EXPULSION; HYGIENE; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SOIL;

SOIL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INDIA; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOIL;

EID: 84930640615     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003790     Document Type: Article

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