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IJE Advance Access originally published online on January 19, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(1):222-223; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh400
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IJE vol.34 no.1 © International Epidemiological Association 2005; all rights reserved.

Letters to the Editor

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Giovanna Raso1,2,*, Elaine Holmes3, Burton H Singer4, Eliézer K N'goran2,5 and Jürg Utzinger1

1 Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
2 Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, 01 BP 1303, Abidjan 01, Côte d'Ivoire
3 Biological Chemistry, Biomedical Sciences Division, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK
4 Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
5 UFR Biosciences, Université de Cocody, 22 PB 770, Abidjan 22, Côte d'Ivoire

* Corresponding author. E-mail: juerg.utzinger@unibas.ch

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In agreement with McKenzie's interesting letter,1 and as set forth in our paper,2 it is useful to reiterate upfront that polyparasitism is very common across different ecological, epidemiological, and socio-cultural settings, particularly in the developing world. We have encountered this phenomenon—without exception—in every cross-sectional survey carried out in the western part of Côte d'Ivoire regardless of whether emphasis was placed on school-age children or entire communities.3,4 Our observations therefore support the seven reports from the 1990s cited by McKenzie,1 and more recent results obtained from cross-sectional surveys done elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa,5 Southeast . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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