Recent increase of human infections with dog heart worm Dirofilaria immitis in Japan

Parassitologia

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 387-388

  Makiya, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dirofilaria immitis; Human case; Japan

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CHILD; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARASITOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; THORACOTOMY; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CULICIDAE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; JAPAN; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0031301329     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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