High Malnutrition Rate in Venezuelan Yanomami Compared to Warao Amerindians and Creoles: Significant Associations WITH Intestinal Parasites and Anemia

• Lilly M. Verhagen ,

  * E-mail: lillyverhagen@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Laboratorio de Tuberculosis, Instituto de Biomedicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Renzo N. Incani,

  Affiliation Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela

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• Carolina R. Franco,

  Affiliation Departamento de Pediatría, Hospital de Niños ‘J.M. de los Ríos’, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Alejandra Ugarte,

  Affiliation Escuela de Bioanálisis, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Yeneska Cadenas,

  Affiliation Escuela de Bioanálisis, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Carmen I. Sierra Ruiz,

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Tuberculosis, Instituto de Biomedicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Peter W. M. Hermans,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Denise Hoek,

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Maiza Campos Ponce,

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Jacobus H. de Waard,

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Tuberculosis, Instituto de Biomedicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Elena Pinelli

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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