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The nutritional impacts of soil-transmitted helminths infections among Orang Asli schoolchildren in rural Malaysia

BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) infections, anaemia and malnutrition are major public health problems in school-age children in developing countries. This study was conducted on 289 Orang Asli (aboriginal) schoolchildren in order to assess the current prevalence and predictors of anaemi...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Abdulhamid, Al-Mekhlafi, Hesham M, Al-Adhroey, Abdulelah H, Ithoi, Init, Abdulsalam, Awatif M, Surin, Johari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22704549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-119