Environmental determinants of Opisthorchis viverrini prevalence in northeast Thailand
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Environmental determinants of Opisthorchis viverrini prevalence in northeast Thailand.
Opisthorchis viverrini infection is an important, human, parasitic disease along the middle and lower Mekong River of Southeast Asia. Despite vast efforts in epidemiological research, the wide geographical variation in O. viverrini prevalence remains unexplained. To investigate the potential influence of village location, prevalence data recorded during the year 2009 for 90 villages in northeas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geospatial health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1970-7096,1827-1987
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2013.59