Water-contact patterns and schistosoma mansoni infection in a rural community in northeast Brazil
We evaluated the influence of water-related human activities, contaminative behaviour, house location, education and socio-economic status on endemic Schistosoma mansoni infection. The study was conducted in a hilry non-irrigated area of rural northeast Brazil amongst a defined population of subsist...
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Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
1987-02-01
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Series: | Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651987000100001&lng=en&tlng=en |