A population-based, case-control study of Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticercosis

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 247-258

  Sanchez A L ^a,b   Lindback J ^b   Schantz, P M ^c   Sone, M ^d   Sakai, H ^e   Medina, M T ^a   Ljungstrom I ^b  

^a NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF HONDURAS   (Honduras)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d Animal Industry Swine and Poultry Research Center   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOELECTROTRANSFER BLOT; EPILEPSY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HONDURAS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RURAL POPULATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS;

CESTODA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 0032788756     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1999.11813420     Document Type: Article

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