Measuring Fitness of Kenyan Children with Polyparasitic Infections Using the 20-Meter Shuttle Run Test as a Morbidity Metric

BACKGROUND: To date, there has been no standardized approach to the assessment of aerobic fitness among children who harbor parasites. In quantifying the disability associated with individual or multiple chronic infections, accurate measures of physical fitness are important metrics. This is because...

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Autores principales: Bustinduy, Amaya L., Thomas, Charles L., Fiutem, Justin J., Parraga, Isabel M., Mungai, Peter L., Muchiri, Eric M., Mutuku, Francis, Kitron, Uriel, King, Charles H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21750742
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001213

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21750742
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001213

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