Chagas' disease: A search for treatment and a question - Should the disease be of military concern?

Military Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 527-532

  Kinnamon, Kenneth E ^a   Hanson, William L ^c   Poon, Bing T ^b   Waits, Virginia B ^c   Scovill, John P ^b  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE; NIFURTIMOX; THIOSEMICARBAZONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MILITARY MEDICINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030816883     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/162.8.527     Document Type: Article

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