Human otoacariasis

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-167

  Indudharan, R ^a,c   Ahamad, M ^b   Ho, T M ^b   Salim, R ^a   Htun, Yan Naing ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; CHILD; COCKROACH; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFESTATION; INSECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TICK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EAR CANAL; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MITE INFESTATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ACARI; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; BLATTARIA; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS TAURUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0032772313     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989958645     Document Type: Article

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