Ascaris lumbricoides Infection and Its Relation to Environmental Factors in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania, a Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study

• Steffen Andreas Schüle ,

  * E-mail: steffenschuele@t-online.de

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, Institute for Medical Bioinformatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Department of Social Epidemiology, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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• Petra Clowes,

  Affiliation NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center (MMRC), Mbeya, Tanzania

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• Inge Kroidl,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center (MMRC), Mbeya, Tanzania

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• Dickens O. Kowuor,

  Affiliation NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center (MMRC), Mbeya, Tanzania

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• Anthony Nsojo,

  Affiliation NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center (MMRC), Mbeya, Tanzania

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• Chacha Mangu,

  Affiliation NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center (MMRC), Mbeya, Tanzania

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• Helene Riess,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, Institute for Medical Bioinformatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

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• Christof Geldmacher,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Rüdiger Paul Laubender,

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Bioinformatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

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• Seif Mhina,

  Affiliation Mbeya Regional Medical Office, Mbeya, Tanzania

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• Leonard Maboko,

  Affiliation NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center (MMRC), Mbeya, Tanzania

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• Thomas Löscher,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

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• Michael Hoelscher,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center (MMRC), Mbeya, Tanzania, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Elmar Saathoff

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

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