Intestinal parasites in Malaysian children with cancer

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 241-242

  Menon, Bina S ^a   Abdullah, Mohd Shukri ^a   Mahamud, Faridah ^a   Singh, Balbir ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; EGG; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HELMINTH; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE PARASITE; MALAYSIA; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTOZOON; TRICHURIS;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALAYSIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032842538     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/45.4.241     Document Type: Article

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