It is still controversial whether intestinal parasitic infections can influence the nutritional status of children. The relationship between protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin A and parasitic infections was evaluated in 124 children. The food intake estimated by recall method was generally low and poor. Seventy five percent of the children were infected with intestinal parasites. The mean±SD weight-for-age and height-for-age Z-score were skewed one standard deviation to the left, when compared to normal standards. An association was found between protein-energy malnutrition and Giardia lamblia, but not with Ascaris lumbricoides or Hymenolepis nana infection. Only Giardia-infected children had a decreased weight-for-age and weight-for-heig...
Intestinal parasitic infections are common infectious diseases causing many health problems and impa...
Intestinal parasitic infections and malnutrition are very common in children of low and middle incom...
This study evaluated the nutritional status of school age children in Santiago de Chuco, La Libertad...
It is still controversial whether intestinal parasitic infections can influence the nutritional stat...
In developing countries, the coexistence of malnutrition and intestinal parasitism contributes to gr...
The Program for the Control of Intestinal Parasites and Nutrition was designed to intervene in small...
Giardia lamblia and other intestinal parasitic infections and their relationships with nutritional s...
The objective was to evaluate the levels of hematic parameters of nutrition and frequency of parasit...
El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la relación que existe entre la parasitosis intestinal y la d...
Malnutrition combined with susceptibility to infection threatens the health and survival of a large ...
OBJECTIVE. Gastrointestinal parasites continue to be an important cause of morbidity and stunting am...
The objective of this survey was to assess the relationships between intestinal parasitism, nutritio...
Background. Giardia lamblia is a protozoan that causes an intestinal infection called giardiasis. Th...
A sample of 471 pre-school children who frequented schools and creches in a poor district of Manaus ...
Estudio para determinar la relación entre el estado nutricional, condición socioeconómica y la paras...
Intestinal parasitic infections are common infectious diseases causing many health problems and impa...
Intestinal parasitic infections and malnutrition are very common in children of low and middle incom...
This study evaluated the nutritional status of school age children in Santiago de Chuco, La Libertad...
It is still controversial whether intestinal parasitic infections can influence the nutritional stat...
In developing countries, the coexistence of malnutrition and intestinal parasitism contributes to gr...
The Program for the Control of Intestinal Parasites and Nutrition was designed to intervene in small...
Giardia lamblia and other intestinal parasitic infections and their relationships with nutritional s...
The objective was to evaluate the levels of hematic parameters of nutrition and frequency of parasit...
El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la relación que existe entre la parasitosis intestinal y la d...
Malnutrition combined with susceptibility to infection threatens the health and survival of a large ...
OBJECTIVE. Gastrointestinal parasites continue to be an important cause of morbidity and stunting am...
The objective of this survey was to assess the relationships between intestinal parasitism, nutritio...
Background. Giardia lamblia is a protozoan that causes an intestinal infection called giardiasis. Th...
A sample of 471 pre-school children who frequented schools and creches in a poor district of Manaus ...
Estudio para determinar la relación entre el estado nutricional, condición socioeconómica y la paras...
Intestinal parasitic infections are common infectious diseases causing many health problems and impa...
Intestinal parasitic infections and malnutrition are very common in children of low and middle incom...
This study evaluated the nutritional status of school age children in Santiago de Chuco, La Libertad...