Prevalence and Factors Associated with Intestinal Parasitic Infection among Children in an Urban Slum of Karachi

BACKGROUND: Intestinal parasitic infections are endemic worldwide and have been described as constituting the greatest single worldwide cause of illness and disease. Poverty, illiteracy, poor hygiene, lack of access to potable water and hot and humid tropical climate are the factors associated with...

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Autores principales: Mehraj, Vikram, Hatcher, Juanita, Akhtar, Saeed, Rafique, Ghazala, Beg, Mohammad Asim
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2577067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18997865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003680

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2577067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18997865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003680

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