Cyclosporiasis in a traveler returning from South America

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 153-155

  Drenaggi, Davide ^a,b   Cirioni, Oscar ^a   Giacometti, Andrea ^a   Fiorentini, Alessandro ^a   Scalise, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliera Umberto I   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYCLOSPORA; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RISK; MALE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; SOUTH AMERICA; SPOROGENESIS; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; COCCIDIOSIS; EUCOCCIDIIDA; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; ITALY; MALE; PERU; TRAVEL; WATER;

EID: 0031692658     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.1998.tb00491.x     Document Type: Article

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