Species-specific associations between soil-transmitted helminths and micronutrients in Vietnamese schoolchildren

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 77-82

  De Gier, Brechje ^a   Nga, Tran Thuy ^b   Winichagoon, Pattanee ^c   Dijkhuizen, Marjoleine A ^d   Khan, Nguyen Cong ^e   Van De Bor, Margot ^a   Ponce, Maiza Campos ^f   Polman, Katja ^f,g   Wieringa, Frank T ^h  

^a ATHENA INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (Viet Nam)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^h INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IODINE; RETINOL; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC; SOIL;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTION; TRICHURIASIS; VIETNAMESE; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEFICIENCY; FECES; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALNUTRITION; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRICHURIS; URINE; VIET NAM;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HEMOGLOBINS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IODINE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MICRONUTRIENTS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; VIETNAM; VITAMIN A; ZINC;

EID: 84977608691     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0533     Document Type: Article

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