Bacteriological studies of blood, tissue fluid, lymph and lymph nodes in patients with acute dermatolymphangioadenitis (DLA) in course of 'filarial' lymphedema

Acta Tropica

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 217-224

  Olszewski, W L ^a   Jamal, S ^b   Manokaran, G ^c   Pani, S ^d   Kumaraswami, V ^e   Kubicka, U ^a   Lukomska, B ^a   Tripathi, F M ^f   Swoboda, E ^g   Meisel Mikolajczyk, F ^g   Stelmach, E ^a   Zaleska, M ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Thanjavur Medical College   (India)

^c APOLLO HOSPITALS   (India)

^d VECTOR CONTROL RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^f BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Filarial fever; Lymph; Lymphedema

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHANGIOMA; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN BIOPSY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ACINETOBACTER; BACILLI; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ERWINIA; SARCINA; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CHROMOGENES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIS;

EID: 0032753943     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(99)00029-7     Document Type: Article

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