An outbreak of trichinosis in lebanon

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 658-660

  Olaison, Lars ^a   Ljungström, Inger ^b  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b National Bacteriological Laboratory   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEBANON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HUMAN; LEBANON; MEAT; MIDDLE AGE; PREVALENCE; SWINE; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS;

TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

EID: 0027076571     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(92)90178-F     Document Type: Article

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