Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminth infections in schoolchildren in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 424-426

  Knoblauch, Astrid M ^a,b   Archer, Colleen ^c   Owuor, Milka ^d   Schmidlin, Sandro ^a,b   Divall, Mark J ^d   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b   Winkler, Mirko S ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d SHAPE Consulting Limited   (France)

Author keywords

Cross sectional survey; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Schistosomiasis; Soil transmitted helminthiasis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTION; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; URINALYSIS; WORM EGG; ANIMAL; FECES; HELMINTH; OVUM; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SOIL; TRANSMISSION; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; MALE; OVUM; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOIL; URINE;

EID: 85028593847     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trw040     Document Type: Article

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