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The sanitary condition of rural drinking water in a Nile Delta village. I. Parasitological assessment of ‘zir’ stored and direct tap water

1982; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 88; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0022172400069898

2396-8184

Amal Khairy, Olfat El Sebaie, Aleya Abdel Gawad, Laila El Attar,

Child Nutrition and Water Access

Drinking water is a recognized mode of transmission of various parasitic and bacterial infections and high prevalence rates of water-borne infection have been found during past studies in rural areas of the Nile Delta (Farag et al. 1979; Khairy. Barakat & Omar, 1978).