| ascaris lumbricoides infection and environmental risk factors in an urban african setting. | identification of appropriate strategies for controlling gastro-intestinal nematodes in communities depends, in part, on an understanding of the conditions that increase risk of exposure to infective stages. the present study was conducted in lubumbashi, zaire. the objectives were to identify features of the environment and living conditions that were significant predictors of ascaris lumbricoides infection, and to determine whether the same predictors were important in populations living in sub ... | 1995 | 7495364 |
| multiple infection with plasmodium and helminths in communities of low and relatively high socio-economic status. | a study was conducted in the city of lubumbashi, zaire: (1) to survey parasitic infections and clinical conditions in the local children and their mothers; (2) to identify combinations of parasites and clinical conditions that commonly occurred together in individuals; and (3) to determine whether single- and/or multiple-species infections were risk determinants of the observed clinical conditions. overall, 1100 children and mothers from three subdivisions, two of low socio-economic status (lses ... | 1996 | 8758142 |
| [anemia prevalence in pregnant and breast-feeding women in lubumbashi (democratic republic of the congo). impact of malaria and intestinal helminthiasis]. | to determine the prevalence of anemia and associated factors (malaria and intestinal helminthiasis) in high risk groups of lubumbashi, congo, particularly in pregnant and breast-feeding women and children aged 1-2 years. | 2003 | 14699334 |