Exfoliative skin manifestations in acute lymphatic filariasis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 539-540

  Dunyo, Samuel K ^a   Nkrumah, Francis K ^a   Ahorlu, Collins K ^a   Simonsen, Paul E ^b  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^b DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Filariasis; Skin disease; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; FILARIASIS; HUMAN;

WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0031791344     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)90905-1     Document Type: Article

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