Present characteristics of symptomatic amebiasis due to Entamoeba histolytica in the east-southeast area of Tokyo

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 363-367

  Ohnishi, K ^a   Murata, M ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN BOKUTOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Nihonbashi Public Health Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; BRAIN ABSCESS; CITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLITIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JAPAN; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; ZYMODEME;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMALS; BRAIN ABSCESS; COLITIS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS, AMEBIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TOKYO;

EID: 0031467596     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268897008236     Document Type: Article

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