Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis and Vitamin A Deficiency: Two Problems, One Policy

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 10-18

  Strunz, Eric C ^a   Suchdev, Parminder S ^b,c   Addiss, David G ^a  

^a Children Without Worms   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Soil transmitted helminth; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; RETINOL; SOIL;

DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; COMPLICATION; HEALTH; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL; TRANSMISSION; TRENDS; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH POLICY; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOIL; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84952863092     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2015.11.007     Document Type: Review

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