Balantidiasis in Aymara children from the northern Bolivian Altiplano

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 922-927

  Esteban, José Guillermo ^a   Aguirre, Carlos ^a   Angles, René ^b   Ash, Lawrence R ^c   Mas Coma, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Laboratorios de Salud   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BALANTIDIUM; BOLIVIA; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SWINE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; AYMARA; BALANTIDIUM COLI; PROTOZOA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032429283     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1998.59.922     Document Type: Article

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