| cross-sectional relationship between hiv, lymphatic filariasis and other parasitic infections in adults in coastal northeastern tanzania. | the relationship between hiv, lymphatic filariasis, malaria (plasmodium falciparum) and intestinal helminths (ascaris lumbricoides, trichuris trichiura and hookworm) was assessed in a cross-sectional study conducted in 2002 among 907 adults in tanga region, tanzania. overall prevalences were 7.9% for hiv, 43.5% for wuchereria bancrofti-specific circulating filarial antigen (cfa), 12.3% for p. falciparum, 1.2% for a. lumbricoides, 7.1% for t. trichiura and 75.7% for hookworm. anaemia was assessed ... | 2006 | 16324731 |