Nosocomial Transmission and Infection Control Aspects of Parasitic and Ectoparasitic Diseases Part II. Blood and Tissue Parasites

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 111-121

  Lettau, Ludwig A ^a  

^a GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HELMINTHIASIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARRIER STATE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; MALARIA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0026114140     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/646297     Document Type: Review

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