Human intestinal infection due to coccidia in Mozambique: Two cases

Acta Tropica

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-29

  Orero Clavero, Ana ^a   Verdú, Maria Elisa ^b   Pemán, Javier ^a   Dario, Rahiman ^c   Gobernado, Miguel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b CP 35   (Mozambique)

^c Hosp Rural Chokwe Dir Hosp Rural   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

AIDS; Coccidia; Cryptosporidium parvum; Diarrhoea; Isospora belli; Mozambique

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COCCIDIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOSPORA BELLI; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MOZAMBIQUE;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; ISOSPORA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOZAMBIQUE;

EID: 0032944090     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(98)00079-5     Document Type: Article

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