An extensive burden of giardiasis associated with intestinal schistosomiasis and anaemia in school children on the shoreline of Lake Albert, Uganda

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 597-603

  Al Shehri, Hajri ^a,b   Stanton, Michelle C ^b   LaCourse, James E ^b   Atuhaire, Aaron ^c   Arinaitwe, Moses ^c   Wamboko, Aida ^c   Adriko, Moses ^c   Kabatereine, Narcis B ^c,d   Stothard, J Russell ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co infection; Control; Epidemiology; Giardia; Plasmodium; Schistosoma

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INTESTINAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; UGANDA; ANIMAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FECES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; LAKE; MIXED INFECTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SANITATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARDS;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CHILD; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIASIS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LAKES; MALARIA; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SANITATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCHOOLS; UGANDA;

EID: 85014198028     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trw072     Document Type: Article

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