Intestinal parasitic infections among children under five years of age presenting with diarrhoeal diseases to two public health facilities in Hawassa, South Ethiopia

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mulatu, Getamesay ^a   Zeynudin, Ahmed ^b   Zemene, Endalew ^b   Debalke, Serkadis ^b   Beyene, Getenet ^b  

^a Hawassa College of Health Sciences   (Ethiopia)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Children under 5years; Diarrhoea; Ethiopia; Hawassa; Intestinal parasites

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; INFANT; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERNER MORRISON SYNDROME; VOMITING; AGE; ANIMAL; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; PARASITOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85006216394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-015-0081-x     Document Type: Article

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